Die sich verändernde Altersstruktur in Deutschland bedingt eine Veränderung der Finanzierungsmodalitäten im deutschen Gesundheitswesen. Ein Schritt dazu ist die Einführung der Fallpauschalen (englisch DRG: Diagnosis Related Groups) zur Entlohnung von stationären Leistungen. Allgemein wird...

One of the major challenges in the Philippine health sector is to secure adequacy of appropriate health facilities. To address this problem, the Health Facilities Enhancement Program (HFEP) was implemented by the Department of Health (DOH) in 2007. Specifically, HFEP aims to improve facilities...

Demands for ramping up health expenditures are at an all-time high. Countries' needs for additional health resources include responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, closing gaps in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal in health in most emerging and developing countries, and serving an ageing...

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has resulted in the death of over four million people since late 2019. To reduce the human and economic costs of COVID-19, different vac-cines have been developed and distributed across countries. There has been significant cross-country variation in...

In Deutschland klaffen Angebot und Nachfrage von Spendeorganen weit auseinander. Das Spendenaufkommen hängt wesentlich vom institutionellen Regime ab, innerhalb dessen Transaktionskosten die Allokation maßgeblich bestimmen. Mit dem Coase-Argument ist dies ersichtlich, nicht aber mit dem...

We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether major crises that impact the well-being of a large number of individuals can be catalysts for civic activism. Exploiting state-level variation in COVID-19 peaks and...