The thesis is about the impact of health care reforms on the competition and budget planning of insurers. The focus are …

This thesis analyzes risk-adjustment schemes, a regulatory means to reduce incentives for risk selection in health …

Objective. To evaluate the role of health plan benefit design and price on consumers' decisions to purchase health …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

The economic costs of adverse health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke should be given serious … three areas: studies that estimated the health-related economic costs of wildfire-smoke exposure; epidemiology studies … related to the health risk of wildfire smoke; and general economic studies that estimated the monetary value of preventing the …

uncertainty in exposure to health risk due to drinking a groundwater source contaminated with a carcinogen, 2) the uncertainty in …

This paper considers the adoption of Health Information Technology (HIT) by physician clinics with ten or fewer …