The paper reviews models of the physician-patient relationship to derive testable hypotheses about the relation between health, demand for medical services and patient's compliance. The models imply that in addition to existing information asymmetries the actions that physician and patient...

Die Studie zeigt, wie sich die direkten Kosten, das heißt die Kosten, die für die Behandlung von Krankheiten aufgewendet werden müssen und die indirekten Krankheitskosten, das heißt die Kosten durch den krankheitsbedingten Arbeitsausfall von Erwerbstätigen, aufgrund der Demografie...

Rising costs in pharmaceutical expenditure have become a major concern for policy makers in Germany over the last years. Therefore the pharmaceutical market in Germany has been increasingly targeted by different kinds of regulations, focussing both on the supply and the demand side, using price,...

This chapter illustrates the contribution which could be made to realising the Lisbon Strategy of the European Union for growth and jobs by innovative healthcare policy favouring a preventive orientation of healthcare. The prevention and control of risk factors for chronic diseases, as well as...