In recent years, the accreditation of private hospitals followed by the decentralisation of the Italian NHS into 21 regional health systems, has furnished a good empirical ground for investigating the "voting with their feet" Tiebout principle. We consider the competition between public and...

Im OECD-Vergleich erscheint der deutsche Krankenhaussektor vielen Beobachtern ineffizient. Wie aber sieht ein Vergleich der deutschen Bundesländer aus? Die Autoren untersuchen Umfang und Ursachen von Effizienzveränderungen im deutschen Krankenhaussektor. Es zeigt sich: Zwischen den Ländern...

Millions of people in the developing world lack access to curative drugs. Thomas Pogge identifies the cause for this problem in a lack of redistribution across borders. By contrast, this article shows that institutional shortcomings within developing countries are the main issue. The different...

In this study we investigate the relationship between nursing staffing levels and hospital quality in Germany. We use administrative data from almost all German hospitals from 2002 to 2013 and link it to mortality rates and patient satisfaction measures. To analyze the association between...

Recent experimental studies analyze the behavior of physicians towards patients and nd that physicians care for their own pro t as well as patient bene t. In this paper, we extend the experimental analysis of the physician decision problem by adding a third party representing the health...

Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Brigitte Zypries hat beklagt, dass die Gesundheitswirtschaft zu den am wenigsten digitalisierten Branchen gehört, obwohl schon im Januar 2016 ein E-Health- Gesetz in Kraft getreten ist. Die Digitalisierung umfasst dabei verschiedene Bereiche: von der elektronischen...

Ein knappes Jahr nach dem Beginn der Corona-Pandemie und ein halbes Jahr nach den ersten erfolgreichen Tests eines Gegenmittels stellt sich heraus, dass die Staaten der Europäischen Union bei der Versorgung mit dem dringend benötigten Impfstoff im Vergleich zu anderen Ländern benachteiligt...

We study patient mobility in the Italian National Health System, using patient-episode level data on elective Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty procedures over the years 2008-2011. We examine how patients' choice of the hospital is affected by changes in waiting times and clinical...

We examine the personal health situation and how the complexities thereof affect the elderly Austrians' willingness to accept electronic health records (EHR). Using data from the sixth wave of the SHARE survey in Austria, we find the complexity of individual health problems and the social...

Cognitive impairment creates significant challenges to health and well-being of the fast-growing aging population. Early recognition of cognitive impairment may confer important advantages, allowing for diagnosis and appropriate treatment, education, psychosocial support, and improved...