This paper surveys the global health economy, with special emphasis on the allocation of resources, the measurement of … industrialized countries and assesses recent and current developments in the German, British and US health systems. …

Many health economists demand more competition in the health care system. They focus on the competition between … sickness funds for insured and the competition between health care providers for contracts with sickness funds. But they … neglect the competition between health care providers for patients which is crucial for medical quality. This third field of …

The report is a result of the Ageing, Health Status and Determinants of Health Expenditure (AHEAD) project within the … EC 6th Framework programme. The objective of the research was to present the model of future health care system revenues … examines impact of demographic changes and changes in health status on future (up to 2050) health expenditures. Next to it …

examples in health economics, epidemiology, and population biology. …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

-called peer group games being non-negative additive games on a permission tree. We provide a polynomial time algorithm for …

sich nicht simultan erfüllen. Die Darstellung der ökonomischen Ansätze zur Bewertung von Leben und Gesundheit zeigt, daß …

Most would agree that priority setting is necessary to avoid a financial collapse in the health sector. It is much … a reason hyprefernce-based methods for evaluations of different health states are not as common and popular as they … summarized in a so-called "Prospect Theory". These biases are quite obvious if one compares data of affected and unaffected …

means of addiction. The central assumption is that unwanted high consumption of health damaging goods leads to an income …

Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert die Interdependenzen und Informationsstrukturen im Gesundheitswesen. Hauptansatzpunkt …