Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and non … form of a reduced variability of health status. Using the standard deviation of life expectancy in 24 OECD countries … between 1960 and 2005, a 10 percent increase of health care expenditure is associated with a decrease of an estimated 0 …

better health at birth even conditional on the observable maternal characteristics which predict selection. …

.Cost-utility analysis compares the monetary cost of health interventions to the associated health consequences expressed using quality … Germany. We investigate several important empirical and conceptual challenges such as the appropriate functional specification … of income and the health state dependence of consumption utility. The estimated monetary values range from e20 …