What links health to economics?  [07.11.19]

Research in natural, food and medical sciences is constantly expanding and deepening our understanding of how diseases evolve, how they can be treated and how health can be preserved. Hohenheim scientists also investigate the relationships between economic, political and socio-demographic developments as well as their influence on society's "burden of disease", health services, and health systems in general.

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      Contakt:

       Prof. Dr. Klaus Prettner

       Prof. Dr. Alfonso Sousa-Poza

 
 
Current Papers:
  • Chen, S., Kuhn, M., Prettner, K., Bloom, D.E. (2019). Noncommunicable diseases attributable to tobacco use in China: macroeconomic burden and tobacco control policies. Health Affairs (accepted for publication).
  • Baldanzi, A., Bucci, A., Prettner, K. (2019). Children's health, human capital accumulation, and R&D-based growth. Macroeconomic Dynamics (forthcoming). [link] [WP]
  • Bloom, D.E., Chen, S., Kuhn, M., McGovern, M.E., Oxley, L., Prettner, K. (2019). The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases: Estimates and Projections for China, Japan, and South Korea. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing (forthcoming). [link] [WP]
  • Chen, S., Kuhn, M., Prettner, K., Bloom, D.E. (2019). The global macroeconomic burden of road injuries: Estimates and projections for 166 countries. The Lancet Planetary Health 3, 390-398. [Open Access]
  • Baldanzi, A., Prettner, K., Tscheuschner, P. (2019). Longevity-induced vertical innovation and the tradeoff between life and growth. Journal of Population Economics 32, 1293-1313. [link] [WP]
  • Gehringer, A., Prettner, K. (2019). Longevity and technological change. Macroeconomic Dynamics 23, 1471-1503. [link] [WP]
  • Oskorouchi, Hamid Reza; Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso (2018): The effect of floods on anemia among reproductive age women in Afghanistan. In: PloS one 13 (2), e0191726. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191726.
  • Kaiser, Micha; Schiller, Jörg; Schreckenberger, Christopher (2018): The effectiveness of a population-based skin cancer screening program: evidence from Germany. In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care 19 (3), S. 355–367. DOI: 10.1007/s10198-017-0888-4.
  • Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Møller, Valerie (2018): A cohort analysis of subjective wellbeing and ageing: heading towards a midlife crisis? In: LLCS 9 (4), S. 382–411. DOI: 10.14301/llcs.v9i4.509.


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