In this study, we document the effect of food stamp access on adult health care utilization. While the Food Stamp … increased the affordability of specialty health care. These findings have important implications for cost-benefit analyses of … the Food Stamp Program, as reductions in health care utilization because of food stamps may offset some of the program …

This study aims to evaluate the effects of selected key factors on health outcomes. Unfortunately, statistical … for health determinant analysis may be lacking or overlooked. Using two different databases, we obtained data from 61 … paper contributes to the health economics debate by statistically testing the relationship between health outcomes and …

China’s exceptional economic expansion has led to rising energy demand and pollution as well as other environmental … but others, including greenhouse gas emissions, continue to rise. Poor air and water quality threaten human health, create … local level, will also be key to further progress. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic Survey of China (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/china …

Ecofin and Oecd methodology is used to reconstruct the historical evolution of public current health care expenditure … health care needs or health care supply (simulations deal with essential levels of assistance that should be equally provided …

We study health care premium subsidies in the Swiss cantons in order to understand the reasons behind the substantial … reducing the premium load for lower income groups in order to ensure universal access to health care at affordable costs. Thus …, variation in premium load is meant to reflect underlying differences between cantons in health care and overall living costs, or …