Smart Fitness bezeichnet die digitale Erfassung individualisierter Fitness- und Lifestyledaten mit Hilfe von Wearables, Smartwatches, Apps und anderen Instrumenten. Die so generierten Daten sind für eine Reihe von Akteure wie Sportartikelhersteller, Pharmaunternehmen, Arbeitgeber sowie...

Smart Fitness bezeichnet die digitale Erfassung individualisierter Fitness- und Lifestyledaten mit Hilfe von Wearables, Smartwatches, Apps und anderen Instrumenten. Die so generierten Daten sind für eine Reihe von Akteure wie Sportartikelhersteller, Pharmaunternehmen, Arbeitgeber sowie...

Die Umfrage unter einzelnen gesetzlichen Krankenkassen in Deutschland hatte zwei wesentliche Ziele: Zum einen sollten rückblickend die Prozesse, Wirkmechanismen und Ergebnisse des AMNOG betrachtet werden, um zu erheben, wie dies aus der Perspektive einzelner gesetzlicher Krankenkassen...

This thesis contains three essays on topics from the field of Applied Health Economics. Two major subdivisions of the health care system, the health- and nursing care market, were closer investigated. In particular, the effect of public reporting on nursing home quality in Germany was analyzed....

Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the population. This chapter begins by introducing the facts, figures, and forecasts...

Why health economics? -- Utility and health -- The transformation of medical care to health -- The demand for medical care : conceptual framework -- Empirical studies of medical care demand and applications -- The physician and the physician-firm -- Physicians in the marketplace -- The hospital...

The purpose of this dissertation is to address policy makers to change the way they think about increasing obesity rates. So far the discussion revolves around increasing incomes and imposing taxes on high fat food, despite their disputed effectiveness. Most of these studies seem to neglect the...

Calculations of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) in cost-utility analyses (CUA) are often based on health state valuations from members of the general public. Results from existing studies indicate that valuations generated by different respondent groups are not equivalent. Objectives: One...

I consider changes in labor markets across U.S. states and counties around the enactment of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and its implementation in 2014. I find that counties with large fractions of uninsured (and therefore a large exposure to the ACA) before the enactment or the...

Individualisierte Medizin, personalisierte Medizin, stratifizierte Medizin, Gendiagnostik, Biomarker, Onkologie, seltene Erkrankungen, Gesundheitspolitik. - Individualized medicine, personalized medicine, stratified medicine, genetic diagnostics, oncology, rare diseases, health policy

Economics of health care -- Insurance and reimbursement -- Managed care and ACOs -- Measuring nursing care -- Reporting and managing budgets -- Budget planning -- Special purpose, capital, and other budgets -- Cost-finding, break-even, and charges -- Comparing costs and benefits -- Writing a...

On the concept of health capital and the demand for health -- The human capital model -- The correlation between health and schooling -- An exploration of the dynamic relationship between health and cognitive development in adolescence -- Parental education and child health : evidence from a...

Theoretical and methodological positions and the choice to use qualitative methods / Joanna Coast and Louise Jackson -- Designing qualitative research studies in health economics / Joanna Coast, Amanda Owen-Smith, and Philip Kinghorn -- Understanding sampling and recruitment / Amanda Owen-Smith...