physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British … Household Panel Survey data set. This question provides a natural cardinalization of health utility .Our method is a refinement … of the method introduced by Cutler and Richardson (1997). We extend their approach in two directions. First, the health …

: health care, healthrelated behaviours and lifestyle, and medical knowledge. …

Millions of people in the developing world lack access to curative drugs. Thomas Pogge identifies the cause for this …

Pooling health risks through insurance has led to cost explosion because centralized third-party payers cannot deny …. If the same total health budget is distributed equally on a per capita basis, funding decisions for treatment can then be … decision, both a sense of tragedy and legal challenges can be avoided. Health unions that serve as fund-raising agencies and …

Regarding the connection between economic development and public health, the statistically evident correlation between … be identified, whose origins are in part inherent to the special structural characteristics of the market for health but … focus on the demand for health, this paper takes a holistic approach toward modeling the health market, in order to account …

impediments. The analysis is based on the individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British Household Panel … regarding the relationship between the latent variable 'health' and its evaluation into observable QALY's. Second, we allow the …

We estimate the causal effect of 334 different types of health shocks on a set of economic and health outcomes: medical … to a disease, the timing of the occurrence is shown to be largely random. We quantify the benefits of (hypothetically … reveal substantial heterogeneity in the welfare loss by types of disease for different types of people. For instance, the …

impediments. The analysis is based on the individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British Household Panel … regarding the relationship between the latent variable "health" and its evaluation into observable QALY's. Second, we allow the …

impediments. The analysis is based on the individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British Household Panel … regarding the relationship between the latent variable "health" and its evaluation into observable QALY's. Second, we allow the …