The aim of the paper is to present new evidence on the relationship between income and health care expenditure allowing … for (i) substitution and complementary relationships between private and public health care expenditure, (ii) presence of … structural breaks in the dependent variables, and (iii) presence of heterogeneous institutional setting (country-specific health …

health outcomes. The purpose of this Swedish pilot study is to assess the costs and quality of life related to fractures of … are collected based on a societal perspective and include both direct and indirect costs. Health effects were measured by … in order to obtain reliable cost and health effect estimates after osteoporotic fractures in general and after spine …

: health care, healthrelated behaviours and lifestyle, and medical knowledge. …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …