. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing … and their macroeconomic repercussions. Fourth, we discuss the health toll and economic impacts of five infectious diseases … human toll and impose a staggering economic burden, early and targeted health and economic policy interventions can often …

approach in order to gauge to what extent gender differences in longevity can be attributed to gender-specific preferences and … health behavior. For that purpose we set up a physiologically founded model of health deficit accumulation and calibrate it … using recent insights from gerontology. From fitting life cycle health expenditure and life expectancy we obtain estimates …

In this paper, I introduce depression to the economics of human health and aging. Based on studies from happiness … late-life health outcomes and longevity … fundamentals. The model is used to explain how untreated depression leads to unhealthy behavior and adverse health outcomes …

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

conceptualization of ageing as an accumulation of health deficits. The paper also discusses the role of medical progress for longevity … and health inequality and presents a framework to assess the effect of increased longevity on the value of life. …This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and …

Aging humans adapt to their worsening state of health and old people are usually happier than estimated by young … adaptation generally increases the value of life (by about 2 to 5 percent), its impact on health behavior and longevity depends … individuals. In this paper we investigate how adaptation to a deteriorating state of health affects health spending, life …

mortality. The economy consists of two sectors: final goods production and a health care sector, selling medical services to … individuals. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We derive the age …We study the role of health care within a continuous time economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous …

This study presents a new view on the association between education and longevity. In contrast to the earlier … literature, which focused on inefficient health behavior of the less educated, we investigate the extent to which the education … delayed through health expenditure. Individuals are heterogeneous with respect to their return to education. The proposed …