System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health … care services. We consider survey data for the years 1993-2007 with information on both individualsÄ perceived health and … their utilization of health care services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via a fixed …

US government investments in health information technology (IT) reflect the significant promise of digitization for … improving quality and efficiency in health care. Previous studies of the impact of health IT have focused on the hospital …

health outcomes or healthcare quality, and to explore how to expand the empirical opportunities for measuring such outcomes … using U.S. national survey data. To these ends, the paper provides an overview of Grossman's seminal health production …

health and education sector. The focus is on the individual dimensions, whether effort (presence and workload) or knowledge … reported publicly in a comparable fashion, yet are among the factors that influence policy outcomes in health. The remainder of …

health outcomes or healthcare quality, and to explore how to expand the empirical opportunities for measuring such outcomes … using U.S. national survey data. To these ends, the paper provides an overview of Grossman's seminal health production …