hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more … health ministers to ministers of other professions in Germany during 1955-2017. German state health ministers have great … power to determine hospital capacities and infrastructure. Our results show that physiciantrained health ministers increase …

: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor … wage increases lead to improvements in overall worker health. In fact, we find some evidence that minimum wage increases … may decrease some aspects of health, especially among unemployed male workers. We also find evidence that increases reduce …

This paper studies the performance of immigrants relative to natives, in terms of their health status, use of health … care services, lifestyles, and coverage of health expenditures. We base the analysis on international evidence that … identified a healthy immigrant effect, complemented by empirical research on the Portuguese National Health Survey. Furthermore …

patients. Indeed, anecdotal evidence suggests that some individuals may opt to compromise their health by foregoing highly …

perspective this implies that the broad expansion of government provided health insurance in Colombia contributed to increasing …

Background. Differences in health and health services use among different ethnic groups within populations have been … always a major concern in democratic societies. Past research has documented the gaps both in health and in services … utilization between the Israeli Arab and Jewish populations. Method. This paper studies the 1993 utilization of health services by …

, and sorting healthier patients into participating hospitals. Conditional on patient health, however, doctors do not reduce …

, are growing, and are related to several economic, social and health sector variables. Global efforts to deal with this …

Background: A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and … national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because … health justice. Aim: To study why global health inequalities are morally troubling, why efforts to reduce them are morally …