Increased health care spending has placed pressure on public and private payers to prioritize spending. Cost …

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …

We present a generalized solution to Grossman’s model of health capital (1972), relaxing the widely used assumption … that individuals can adjust their health stock instantaneously to an “optimal” level without adjustment costs. The Grossman … model then predicts the existence of a health threshold above which individuals do not demand medical care. Our generalized …

of the neighborhood effect on health using observational data, which has the advantage of providing general results that … pollution, crime, and noise) on self-assessed health, presence of chronic conditions and limitations in daily activities. We … to health, through instrumental variable methods and several endogeneity tests. The main novelty is the sound estimation …

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …