Large regional disparities in health and healthcare costs prevail in many countries, but our understanding of the underlying causes is still limited. This study shows for the case of the Netherlands that population sorting through internal migration can explain a substantial share, around 28%,...

Large regional disparities in health and healthcare costs prevail in many countries, but our understanding of the underlying causes is still limited. This study shows for the case of the Netherlands that population sorting through internal migration can explain a substantial share, around 28%,...

This paper analyzes whether moderate weight reduction improves subjective health perception in obese individuals. Besides simple regression models, in a simultaneous equation framework we use randomized monetary weight loss incentives as instrument for weight change, to address possible...

The objective of this paper is to identify selected forces of the decrease in the number of avoidable deaths from ischaemic heart diseases (IHD) inWest and East Germany from 1996 to 2004. Our main result reveals that the number of intracardiac catheter facilities,which are an important...

This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected profitability of PHI relative to SHI...

In diesem Papier wird das zukünftige Ausgabenvolumen der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV) bis zum Jahr 2050 projiziert. Die Ausgaben werden anhand von linearen Regressionsmodellen (OLS), Vektorautoregressionsmodellen (VAR) und Vektorfehlerkorrekturmodellen (VECM) geschätzt. Sie werden...

On the basis of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement (SHARE), we analyse the determinants of who engages in mammography screening focusing on European women aged 50-69 years. A special emphasis is put on the measurement error of subjective life expectancy and on the measurement and...

Auf Grundlage von Daten des 'Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe' (SHARE) werden in diesem Beitrag einkommensbezogene Ungleichheiten in der Inanspruchnahme medizinischer und präventiver Leistungen in Deutschland analysiert und statistisch erklärt. Die Ergebnisse belegen...

Die Privatisierung von Krankenhäusern, d.h. der Trägerwechsel von kommunalen und privat-freigemeinnützigen hin zu privat-gewinnorientierten Trägern, wird seit Beginn dieser Entwicklung Anfang der 1990iger Jahre kontrovers diskutiert. Zur Versachlichung der Debatte wurden in den Jahren 2009...