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 …

This paper considers the relationship between economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches to … state-level analyses of mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is … smaller in magnitude. Further analyses suggest this is due to spillover effects of economic conditions on health outcomes …

The relationship between recessions and health is mixed, with some evidence from the most recent financial crisis … the Irish crisis of 2008, to test the impact of economic expansion and contraction on mothers physical and mental health … and health behaviours. Three waves of data from the Irish Lifeways Cohort Study for the period 2001-2011, and local area …