Die Bedeutung der unmittelbaren Verknüpfung von medizinischen und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Kenntnissen wird auch angesichts der enormen Dynamik und Herausforderungen einer nahezu alles beherrschenden Pandemie im Gesundheitswesen deutlich. Es ist daher entscheidend, Kosten und Nutzen von...

With markets and competition dominating much of the debate on health care reform, health care planning has received little scholarly attention in recent years. Yet in many high-income countries, governments have continued to plan some elements of their health care systems. We use a new framework...

There is a growing body of cross-country comparisons in health systems and policy research. However, there is little consensus as to how to assess its quality. This is partly due to the fact that cross-country comparison constitutes a diverse inter-disciplinary field of study, with much...