This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>Housing Studies</I> (2013). Volume 28, issue 5, pages 746-763.<P> Elderly home-owners get institutionalized less often than renters do. We hypothesize that housing tenure itself explains this behavior. Using longitudinal data from a Dutch community...</p></i>

India’s health care and health financing provision is characterized by too little Government spending on health, meager health insurance coverage, declining public health care use contrasted by highest levels of private out-of-pocket health spending in the world. To understand the...

В статье рассматриваются теоретические аспекты рынка социально значимых услуг, влияние социально-демографической политики государства, внедрение инноваций на...

This report moves beyond the conventional scope of economics to examine three entrenched structural factors -demography, geography and institutions- that are closely connected to economic and social development. Historical in nature and slow to evolve, these variables are not always in the...

Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin Americans. Using an enhanced version of the recently created Gallup World Poll that incorporates...

The health-care industry requires large expenditure on research and development (R&D), with many projects undergoing long development cycles, usually with uncertain outcomes. Extant research has mainly concentrated on the health-care industry in the United States, where R&D costs are expensed as...

O objetivo deste artigo é avaliar o financiamento das formas públicas e privadas de organização do setor saúde na América Latina e Caribe (ALC) e seu comportamento nos anos noventa. O artigo se estrutura em três partes. A primeira busca estabelecer alguns conceitos como ponto de partida...

This paper reviews the issues to be faced in attempting to create a microsimulation of health care demand, health care finance and the economic impact of health behaviour. These issues identified via an in-depth review of seven dynamic microsimulation models, selected from an initial set of 27...