This study examines whether health care is affected by Baumol’s cost disease in a scenario of no growth. Baumol's model implies that stagnant sectors are driven by wage increases in excess of productivity growth. But in a no growth economy the income is constant. It is investigated in two...

The paper examines prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Czech Republic based on drug consumption. Data for the whole Czech population for the period 2013-2015 was used to identify patients with diabetes and their health care costs. Association between the presence of diabetes and...