Produkte der Medizintechnik dargestellt. Für die stark innovationsgetriebene und sehr heterogene Branche lassen sich … grundlegende technologische Entwicklungstrends erkennen, aus denen Schlüsseltechnologien der Medizintechnik abgeleitet werden … können. Technologieorientierte Unternehmen der Medizintechnik agieren dabei in regulierten nationalen Gesundheitsmärkten …

and 2004. Using data from the German Federation of Public Pension Providers, the IMS Health Drug Launches database and the … the observation period. Controlling for individual determinants of health-related retirement, such as worker's age, sex …

This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on … health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and medical innovation. Our first set of regressions include a set of … also tests whether in the long-run countries tend to achieve similar levels of health outcomes. Our results show that …

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 …

impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where … contributing to these health gains. …

The main objective of this paper is to analyse trade flows and tariff policies of health products. Compared to previous … studies, we not only focus on medicines, but on a large set of products that enter the public health space and can be … identified in the common trade classification. The first contribution is thus to construct three groups of health products based …