health ministers to ministers of other professions in Germany during 1955-2017. German state health ministers have great … power to determine hospital capacities and infrastructure. Our results show that physician-trained health ministers increase … hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …

Health perception biases can have serious consequences on health. Despite their relevance, the role of such biases in … determining healthcare utilisation is severely underexplored. Here we study the relationship between health misperception, doctor … visits, and concomitant outof- pocket expenditures for the population 50+ in Europe. We conceptualise health misperception as …

health ministers to ministers of other professions in Germany during 1955-2017. German state health ministers have great … power to determine hospital capacities and infrastructure. Our results show that physiciantrained health ministers increase … hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …

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 …

This paper investigates the impact on health outcomes of the regulation prohibiting physicians from prescribing drugs … without a prior physical examination. This requirement could improve health by reducing illegal access to prescription drugs …. But it reduces access to health care by making it more difficult for patient and physician to use many forms of …