funds spent on the health sector. Therefore the question arises as to whether it is possible to find the link between … expenditure on health and health conditions among societies in the EU countries. This article shows the relationship between … health financing and the condition of health in the societies of the new EU Member States. …

based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) to assess their impact on self-assessed health status and on the use of health care …' perceived health and their access to a number of health services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via … a fixed-price payment system does not lead to worst health perceptions. Instead, the reform marked a moderate decrease …

The focus of the present study is on consumer health information in relation to supplier induced demand (SID). We argue … new information measure based on questions of the Swiss Health Survey, we estimate a Poisson hurdle model for office … visits and the length of stay in hospitals. We find that information has a negative effect on health care utilization …

patients. Indeed, anecdotal evidence suggests that some individuals may opt to compromise their health by foregoing highly …

perspective this implies that the broad expansion of government provided health insurance in Colombia contributed to increasing …

Recent research has documented a link between consumer risk preferences over health and the willingness to pay (WTP …) for medical technologies. However, the absence of empirical health risk preference estimates so far limits the … individual risk preference parameters over health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that shed light on health risk attitudes and …

In this study, we document the effect of Food Stamp access on adult health care utilization. While Food Stamps is one … or mental health, or due to individuals with common chronic health conditions, leaving open the possibility that changes … Stamps increased the affordability of specialty health care, which may have further reduced the need for physician visits …

study how a wave of mergers that led to the shutdown of one third of all Swedish maternity wards affected the health of … Sweden over two decades, we show that the closures negatively affected the health of mothers, while effects on infant health …

This paper investigates whether minimum wage increases impact worker health in the United States. We consider self …-reported measures of general, mental, and physical health. We use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993 to 2014 Behavioral Risk … Factor Surveillance Survey. Among men, we find no evidence that minimum wage increases improve health; instead, we find that …

Trade in health products has been flourishing in recent years as the demand for better health has been growing … throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we … availability of health-related products such as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical equipment. The case for liberalizing trade …