Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...

In 2010 the Greek economy entered a deep economic crisis. This was the result of an accumulation of structural problems in the economy, including overspending and loss of competitiveness during the previous decades, translating into persistently large budget and trade deficits. In 2015, under...

Seit 2010 befindet sich die griechische Wirtschaft in einer tiefen Krise. Dazu haben verschiedene Probleme beigetragen, wie etwa die steigenden staatlichen Ausgaben und der Verlust der internationalen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Letzteres hat unter anderem zu hohen Haushalts- und Handelsdefiziten...

Excessive waiting times for elective surgery have been a long-standing concern in many national healthcare systems in the OECD. How do the hospital admission patterns that generate waiting lists affect different patients? What are the hospitals characteristics that determine waiting times? By...

Background: The regional availability of specialized physicians is an important aspect in healthcare of patients with IBD. The association between physician density and healthcare is not yet clear. Most studies did not consider district type, which reflects population density. Our research...

Background: We propose using neighborhood characteristics as demand-related morbidity adjusters to improve prediction models such as the risk equalization model. Results: Since the neighborhood has no explicit ‘place’ in healthcare demand models, we have developed the “Neighborhood and...

Eine zentrale Strategie, um der Zunahme von Antibiotikaresistenzen entgegenzutreten, ist die Verbesserung der ärztlichen Verschreibungspraxis. Damit sollen Fehlverschreibungen von Antibiotika als eine Hauptursache von Antibiotikaresistenzen vermieden werden. Die zunehmende Verfügbarkeit...

Ernsthaft wurde bisher die Einführung einer Einheitskrankenversicherung in Deutschland nicht diskutiert. Und das, obwohl diese grundsätzlich deutliche Effizienzgewinne für das System der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung mit sich brächte. Angesichts der Herausforderungen in den kommenden...

Background: Economic evaluation (EE) is a dynamically advancing knowledge area of health economics. It has been conceived to provide evidence for allocating scarce resources to gain the best value for money. The problem of efficiency of investments becomes even more crucial with advances in...

Although personalized medicine is becoming the new paradigm to manage some diseases, the economics of personalized medicine have only focused on assessing the efficiency of specific treatments, lacking a theoretical framework analyzing the interactions between pharmaceutical firms and healthcare...