While past research on health care workers has found that shift work can lead to negative physiological and …

LATE for schooling indicate the presence of a large and negative bias in the least square/probit estimates of schooling-health …

and society values lives lived at a "standard" level of health and income equally. We show that there exists a unique …

This paper reviews the performance of French health care system from an economic viewpoint. It also provides some … policy recommendations. The health system in France is regarded as delivering high quality services, with freedom of choice … therefore not surprising that the French population is relatively satisfied with the health system. As this paper points out …

Health services are largely tax-financed in the United Kingdom and account for 14 per cent of general government … spending. This paper analyses how the National Health Service (NHS) has been dealing with the associated expenditure pressures …

One area where spending discipline will become increasingly important in Hungary is health care. This paper describes … the structure of the health care system, highlights outstanding weaknesses and considers ways to make financing more … stable and sustainable. The slow progress in modernising the health care system is reflected in the low efficiency of …

rate of increase over the last 20 years has been much slower than in the rest of the area. The Hungarian health system is … on containing costs but efforts to improve service delivery and health outcomes have been plagued by problems of …

An ambitious reform to increase efficiency of the Portuguese health care system was launched in 2002. In contrast to … health sector, making changes essentially irreversible. The reform has two main aims: to deliver better-quality public health … services than at present but at no higher cost; and to reduce the underlying growth rate of public health-care spending over …