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 …

This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and … surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health … conceptualization of ageing as an accumulation of health deficits. The paper also discusses the role of medical progress for longevity …

assessment of diagnosed morbidity attributable to PM2.5 exposure across various health conditions in a developing country. By … impacts on several previously unexplored health issues. …

demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002 …

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …

and patients' health, and the optimal discharge date before the reform. Testing the results with data, we find a large … negative effect on bed-blocking and discharge date. Thus, financial incentives may count more than health incentives, or health …

This paper investigates the impact of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) dependent coverage mandate on health insurance … coverage rates and health care utilization among young adults. Using data from the Medical Panel Expenditure Survey, I exploit … the discontinuity in health insurance coverage rates at age 26, the new dependent coverage age cutoff enforced by the ACA …

health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We estimate, decompose, and run counterfactual analysis of regional … inequality in government output (health expenditure per capita) and outcome (health system satisfaction) during expansion of … health care decentralization in both countries. We find no evidence of increase in regional inequalities in outcomes and …