Volume 19 in the Research in Political Sociology series is devoted to health problems, challenges and accomplishments … in democratic societies. It includes papers addressing health systems, health policies, obstacles to societal healthy … behaviors, and/or health conditions that are experienced in democratic societies in the world. The democratic society is …

. Option Value of Disability Insurance in Canada - Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle -- 4. Health Status, Disability, and … Retirement Incentives in Belgium - Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefebvre, and Sergio Perelman -- 5. Health, Disability Insurance, and … Blanchet, and Muriel Roger -- 7. Health, Financial Incentives, and Early Retirement: Microsimulation Evidence for Germany …

NHS waiting lists (in England, given that health is a devolved responsibility) over the last 17 years - the period for …

Individuals in the UK with health conditions may be entitled to two types of benefits - incapacity benefits (for those … 'health-related' benefits - and official projections suggest that claimant numbers will rise further still. Whoever wins the … government has already announced a number of reforms to the health-related benefit system in the last year, including a …

Health spending, and the performance of the NHS, will feature prominently in the upcoming general election campaign …. Many different factors matter for NHS performance and for the wider health of the population, but one important factor is … the level of spending on health services. In this IFS pre-election briefing, we examine UK government health spending over …

health campaigns. Focusing on shared religious affiliation as a signal of proximity, we implemented a field experiment during …

Health is the largest single area of Scottish Government spending, making up 35% of the Scottish Government's total … by large increases in health spending in the 2000s and cutbacks to other areas of spending in the 2010s. This trend is … healthy population, and medical advancements, Scottish health spending would need to grow by around 3% in real terms per year …