developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer … countries than for health in poorer countries. Employing panel cointegration and conventional panel regressions, we find that …

As in most industries, in health care, information is a competitive asset, and we expect that health care providers may … information may be a barrier to the development of a health information network. Health information networks are designed to … facilitate electronic information sharing across health care providers. The electronic exchange of health information is widely …

This paper´s primary objective is to contribute to the discussions and reflections about care and health of …. Aspects of health and safety to protect the life and good health conditions of those who carry out their task of cultivating …

Health of the ageing population has the potential to place considerable pressure on future government spending. In the … fiscal concerns, a dynamic microsimulation model, APPSIM, has been developed at NATSEM. This type of model allows health to …. Thus, the health module is able to move beyond solely considering the impacts of an ageing population, but also …

Older Australians have more health conditions, have more hospital separations and stay longer in hospital than younger … population characteristics including age and sex distribution, socioeconomic status, private health insurance coverage and health … the 2001 Australian National Health Survey to which variables were added on hospital usage and costs from the 2004 …

22nd August 2007. The papers all discuss the development and application to policy of dedicated health microsimulation … taxation and public transfers into the areas of health and ageing. …