Die Gesundheitssysteme stehen weltweit zur Diskussion. Kann internationales Benchmarking ganzer Gesundheitssysteme dazu beitragen, Lösungen für deren Probleme zu finden? Diese Arbeit stellt drei aktuelle Ansätze solcher Vergleiche vor. Hierbei werden die Erkenntnisse ebenso erläutert wie die...

Steigende Kosten in den meisten Gesundheitssystemen und die damit verbundenen Finanzierungsprobleme stehen im Focus von vielen empirischen Untersuchungen. Wissenschaftler sind der Meinung, dass falsch gesetzte Anreize einer der Hauptgründe hierfür darstellen. Die vorliegende Arbeit umreißt...

Global Health Initiatives (GHIs) have ushered in revolutionary changes in the international public health architecture, providing clinical services that would have been unthought of a decade ago. But, the news is not all good. The more GHIs try to do, the clearer it becomes how much their work...

This is the introduction and summary to the fifth phase of an ongoing project on Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement Incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the strong relationship across countries between social...

It is widely believed that health plays a major role in retirement decisions. The most important problem in including health in retirement models is the lack of availability of a good measure of health at the individual level in existing data sets. This problem is exacerbated when a model...

The humankind wisdom is supposed to be a related and open-deeper turning point. An equivalent type of statement may be referred to generosity, creativity, solidarity. Homo Sapiens, as a species, is distinguished clearly from other species by their socio-cultural nature, drawing on a deep inner...

The content of this document is only and only an interface – a synthetic one – between any (e-)reader – seeking a kind of partnership/membership to a collectively responsible entity engaged into scientific research focused on a ‘better near/next world’, respectively just this...

The entitled theme of the project [focused on Generosity–Creativity–Solidarity Triad and Energy Security] stands in a way apart from the actual tragic context of war in Ukraine, and on war as a broader tragic stance of our humankind. Not to point more on the long-term dramatic COVID19...