Historically, infectious diseases caused considerable damage to human societies, and they
continue to do so today. To help reduce their impact, mathematical models of disease …

Can we really use economic thinking to understand our health care system? Health
Economics, now in its sixth edition, not only shows how this is done, but also provides the …

The sale of cannabis for adult recreational use has been made legal in nine US states since
2012, and nationally in Uruguay in 2013 and Canada in 2018. We review US research on …

What happens when patients suddenly stop their medications? We study the health
consequences of drug interruptions caused by large, abrupt, and arbitrary changes in price …

Amid soaring health spending, there is growing interest in workplace disease prevention
and wellness programs to improve health and lower costs. In a critical meta-analysis of the …

Background Interaction between service provider and customer is the primary core of
service businesses of different natures, and the influence of trust on service quality and …

Between 1974 and 1981, the RAND health insurance experiment provided health insurance
to more than 5,800 individuals from about 2,000 households in six different locations across …

How do we measure happiness? Focusing on subjective measures as a proxy for welfare
and well-being, this book finds ways to do that. Subjective measures have been used by …

Virtually all social science research related to obesity studies a person's body mass index
(BMI). Yet there is wide agreement in the medical literature that BMI is seriously flawed …

We use employee-level panel data from a single firm to explore the possibility that
individuals may select insurance coverage in part based on their anticipated behavioral …