This study analyses the impact on labour mobility and employment of the 2013 revision of the Professional Qualifications Directive (DIR 2005/36) and related EU initiatives. It analyses trends in mobility and recognition, focussing on the health sector and four country case studies - Germany, Ita...
This study analyses the impact on labour mobility and employment of the 2013 revision of the Professional Qualifications Directive (DIR 2005/36) and related EU initiatives. It analyses trends in mobility and recognition, focussing on the health sector and four country case studies- Germany, Ital...
DG CONNECT commissioned RAND Europe, Open Evidence and BDI Research to undertake the third eHealth benchmarking study, which measured the availability and use of eHealth by general practitioners (GPs) in 27 EU member states, and compared the results to those of the second eHealth benchmarking st...
This aims at better understanding the drivers behind the volume-outcome relationship found in many studies in the medical and health-economics literature. In the first chapter I investigate the relationship between workload and choice of treatment. Using detailed microdata on childbirth, I explo...
Since the emergence of the discipline, the diagnostic concepts of psychiatry, more than those of any other medical field, have always been closely connected to normative debates about society at large. This link never was more apparent than in the two decades between the world wars. Amidst the p...
This report presents the outcomes of the “Pilot on eHealth Indicators” study, carried out by Empirica in association with IPSOS on behalf of the European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General. The data used for this report were collected by means of a survey of primary ca...