Health Economics II: Some Unique Aspects of Health Economics

Health Economics and Aging

Objectives: In this paper, aging with its different dimensions is discussed. The characteristics of elderly's life in relation to individual, social, and changes meet aging together with attitudes toward it and major components of elderly are explained. Disease and burden of disease of aging as a central to the areas of Health and Health Economics will be emphasized. The influential factors on ...

Health and Socio-Economics of the Elderly

Aging is reviewed by a variety of disciplines; demographers, sociologists, economists, health scientists, and politicians. However, there are still great disputes over aging because of its economic roles, and health expenditures. Several questions about aging should be answered. Is aging an illness? Are aged people a burden to community? Is it a threat, or an achievement? (1). There are opposi...

Health Economics

From health services economics to health economics: for debate.

Liverpool City Council and Health Authorities recently launched their City Health Plan, a five-year strategy to improve health and well-being in Liverpool, building on the foundations of the WHO Healthy Cities initiative. This strategy addresses the following key areas: housing for health, poverty and unemployment and health, health and the environment, health action for children and young peop...

Health economics of osteoporosis.

Rather than reviewing the many studies of cost effectiveness in osteoporosis, this paper reviews the principles of cost-effectiveness analysis and the gaps in our knowledge that are required to improve such analyses in osteoporosis. These include more information on the cost of fractures and their consequences on health states, particularly on an international basis. New developments include th...