The reliability of general self-rated health status is examined using the reform of the public health insurance system … causal impact of the program on self-assessed health and hence reveals the sensitivity of this subjective measure to a … perturbation in the insurance system. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the results indicate that after the policy …

In this paper we investigate whether the presence of private insurance leads to improved health status. Using the RAND … entry into Medicare. Estimation addresses endogeneity of the insurance participation decision in health outcomes regressions … treatment effects (for health status). Insurance participation and health behaviors enter with a lag to allow their effects to …

The reliability of general self-rated health status is examined using the reform of the public health insurance system … causal impact of the program on self-assessed health and hence reveals the sensitivity of this subjective measure to a … perturbation in the insurance system. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the results indicate that after the policy …

Despite the potential role of a mother’s health insurance coverage in enhancing her children’s health and well … insurance subscription and child malnutrition using data extracted from the Demographic and Health Surveys program across 32 sub …-scores and weight-for-age z-scores, respectively. After addressing endogeneity, we found that mothers’ health insurance …

The reliability of general self-rated health status is examined using the reform of the public health insurance system … examined using the reform of the public health insurance system of Germany in 2004 as a source of exogenous variation. Among … causal impact of the program on self-assessed health and hence reveals the sensitivity of this subjective measure to a …

Health care systems in developed countries worldwide are not only faced with costs of new medical technologies but they … are also faced with growing propor-tions of elderly people who by far induce largest demands of health services. Spending … on health care is now up to 10% or more of gross national product in some countries. This causes concern whether the most …

social insurance system into a national health service. In order to address these changes in a systematic way, we track …

healthcare system types: National Health Service, social health insurance system, and private health insurance system … relatively mixed Dutch social health insurance system. In order to approach this research question in a systematic way, we … institutional framework of a social health insurance system. This ongoing reform process towards a welfare market for medical goods …