providers. There is an ongoing debate in Germany regarding the preferential treatment given to private health insurance (PHI …Long waiting lines are a common feature and a major concern in many public health care delivery systems. The waiting …) holders while statutory health insurance (SHI) holders face continuously increasing waiting times. In order to tackle this …

The importance of the physician-patient relationship for the health care market is beyond controversy. Recent work … that physician consultation and health relevant behavior are not stochastically independent. In the recursive bivariate … probit model, patient's health relevant behavior has a significant influence on the probability of a physician visit. This …

there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients' post-assignment mortality, in the …

A host of different factors affect health and longevity, ranging from genetic endowments to public policy. Physicians … styles of primary care physicians significantly affect the health outcomes of their patients. Using data on the population of … aspect of physicians' health management styles have important implications for patient outcomes and health care costs …

Primary care physicians (PCPs) provide frontline health care to patients in the U.S.; however, it is unclear how their … health care utilization by focusing on Medicare patients affected by PCP relocations or retirements, which we refer to as … results suggest that switching to higher-quality PCPs could significantly affect patients' longer-run health outcomes …