As a greater number of people reach old age, medicine is challenged to develop new approaches to this population. Health promotion, not just treatment of disease but improving the quality of life for older persons, must play a role. What happens to individuals in terms of health status as they...

This paper analyzes the impact of health indicators on an individual's trip and mode choices to out-patient care facilities. The study's focus is an out-patient trip to a health care facility, and the source of data is the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) for 2011, 2013...

This paper presents preliminary summary results from a longitudinal study of participants in seven U.S. states during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to standard socio-economic characteristics, we collect data on various economic preference parameters: time, risk, and social preferences, and...

Physicians and pharmacists in Taiwan both prescribed and dispensed drugs; many elderly people considered the two types of providers to some extent substitutable. This paper studies effects of two policies in the 1990s on elderly people’s choice between physician and pharmacist services: the...

Rationale: The research of social inequalities as determinantes of health state, health needs and use of health care of population is fundamental in creating and running of the health policy and planning the development health care and health management. Objectives: The main objective of the...

This study examines how people with disabilities and chronic health conditions—members of a large and diverse group often overlooked by Canadian public policy—are making sense of the Canadian federal government's response to COVID-19. Using original national online survey data collected in...

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...

Critics protest loudly against restrictions imposed by politicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: Mandatory masks, lockdowns, school and business closures. This paper examines (1) the extent to which these policies have indirectly contributed to limiting the number of COVID-19 cases...

This paper presents a theory of the demand for health, health investment and longevity, building on the human capital framework for health and addressing limitations of existing models. It predicts a negative correlation between health investment and health, that the health of wealthy and...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly the ones that are health-related, hold special significance for Africa in that they incentivize countries in the region to: first, look beyond their shores to strategies being implemented by others to improve the health and wellbeing of their...