health debates in the United States for some time. Compression of morbidity would lead to longer life but less rapid medical …The question of whether morbidity is being compressed into the period just before death has been at the center of … spending increases than if life extension were accompanied by expanding morbidity. Using nearly 20 years of data from the …

This paper develops and applies an integrated model of human mortality and morbidity valuation that is consistent with … key finding is that total health benefits of public programs equate to the sum of willingness to pay for reduced mortality … principles of welfare economics. The standard expected utility model of one person facing two health states (alive and dead) is …

In 1995, the National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) collaborated with the Research and Education Division of … the American Sheep Industry Association (ASI) in developing a needs assessment tool to identify the most important health …

differences in pro-cyclicality across subsamples that are expected to be affected differently by the business cycle. Mortality is … most pro-cyclical for young men (18-24), but there are also some indications of more pro-cyclical mortality for subgroups …, such as the disabled, who are already dependent on the health-care system. Furthermore, the data allow us to look at pro …

This paper extracts the policy implications from ENEPRI Research Report Nos. 28, entitled Health and Morbidity in the …, Health Status and Determinants of Health Expenditure) for the European Commission …