Increasing health care costs is an international problem from which SouthAfrica is not excluded. Prescription medication contributes most to these high health care costs,and methods to reduce their costs to society are implemented worldwide. In South Africa, sucha method is a managed care...

Health is a fundamental human right. Access to health care, which includes providing apopulation with safe, effective, good quality drugs at the least possible cost, is a prerequisite torealising that right. Drugs or medicines play a fundamental role in the effectiveness, efficiencyand...

The most frequent intervention performed by physicians is the writing of a prescription. Modern medicine has been remarkably effective in managing diseases. Medicines play a fundamentalrole in the effectiveness, efficiency and responsiveness of health care systems. However,health care...

This dissertation consists of five distinct empirical papers covering two large areas of research that are rather independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult...