The perception of the health sector from an economic policy point of view is changing. In the past, health expenditure was mostly seen as a "cost" item, probably because many medical treatments are covered by public health insurance. However, policymakers are increasingly realizing that a...

The purpose of this study was to assess the association between involuntary job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality. Swedish-linked employee-employer data were used to identify all establishment closures during 1990-1999, as well as the employees who were laid off and a...

We have witnessed radical changes in infrastructure of health services and pattern of utilisation of care over the years in all parts of the country. An enquiry into the fact would unveil some of the important alterations like introduction of user fees or more specifically hike in fees structure...

The social changes in Poland over the last two decades have had an impact on many dimensions of life, including on important elements of human capital, such as health and functional and instrumental daily activities. This article contains an overview of the available data and indicators on...

Mit prozessproduzierten Daten des Forschungsdatenzentrums der Rentenversicherung (FDZ-RV) werden soziale Unterschiede beim Zugang in die Erwerbsminderungsrente (EM-Rente) untersucht, wobei auch die zugrunde liegenden und für die Rentenbewilligung maßgeblichen Krankheitsdiagnosen...

Die Literatur hat sich bisher nur mit der Substituierbarkeit von informeller und professioneller, häuslicher Pflege beschäftigt. Dabei wurden andere beobachtbare und unbeobachtbare Faktoren, die die Nutzung eines Pflegearrangements beeinflussen, weitestgehend ignoriert. Aber Regressoren, die...

"Benefit-cost analyses of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects are an important tool for evaluating the efficiency of such projects, and an important input into decision making. These analyses, however, often fail to monetize the benefits of reduced death and injury. The authors review the...

This paper investigates the effect of food prices on a number of health outcome indicators using published data for Pacific Island countries. The empirical results provide confirmation that while food prices are shown to be positively correlated with infant mortality and crude death rates, they...

Gemäß § 31 Abs. 1 Risikostrukturausgleichs-Verordnung (RSAV) soll sich das Versichertenklassifikationsmodell für den morbiditätsorientierten RSA an 50-80 Krankheiten orientieren. Dabei sollen insbesondere Krankheiten mit schwerwiegendem Verlauf und kostenintensive chronische Krankheiten...

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics using techniques from the literature on the estimation of dynamic panel data models. Contrary to much of the previous literature on health and socio-economic...