In this paper we attempt to describe the general reasons behind the world population explosion in the 20th century. The …

reference to a National Health Service setting, where monetary prices are zero and general practitioners act as gatekeepers to …This paper analyzes the nature of health care provider choice in the case of patient-initiated contacts, with special …

general level variation (through the random intercept) and the variation specifically related to teaching status. We postulate …

Starting from a finite or countable set of states of health, and assuming the existence of an objective transitive … preference relation on that set, we propose a way of performing interpersonal comparisons of states of health. In so doing, we … state of health whenever they sit at the same centile of their respective type. A way of comparing and evaluating states of …

reference to a National Health Service setting, where monetary prices are zero and general practitioners act as gatekeepers to …This paper analyzes the nature of health care provider choice in the case of patient-initiated contacts, with special …

exponential models). We first estimated TTO utilities for 43 EQ-5D chronic health states and next these states were embedded in … health profiles. The chronic TTO utilities were then used to predict the responses to TTO questions with health profiles. We …

immediate, but will make health investments so as to equalize cause--specific mortality. However, equal mortality risk from a … variety of diseases does not imply that disease--specific public health interventions are a waste. Rather, a cause … is also altered as a result of intervention. Analyzing data from one of the most important public health programs ever …