The association between voluntary health insurance and health outcomes in older adults in Europe

Funding Information: This paper uses data from SHARE Waves 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 (DOIs: 10.6103/SHARE.w5.800, 10.6103/SHARE.w6.800, 10.6103/SHARE.w7.800, 10.6103/SHARE.w8.800, 10.6103/SHARE.w8ca.800, 10.6103/SHARE.w9ca800) see B\\u00F6rsch-Supan et al. for methodological details. (reference 15 in text) The SHARE data collection has been funded by the European Commission, DG RTD through FP5 (QLK6-CT-2001-00360), FP6 (SHARE-I3: RII-CT-2006-062193, COMPARE: CIT5-CT-2005-028857, SHARELIFE: CIT4-CT-2006-028812), FP7 (SHARE-PREP: GA N\\u00B0211909, SHARE-LEAP: GA N\\u00B0227822, SHARE M4: GA N\\u00B0261982, DASISH: GA N\\u00B0283646) and Horizon 2020 (SHARE-DEV3: GA N\\u00B0676536, SHARE-COHESION: GA N\\u00B0870628, SERISS: GA N\\u00B0654221, SSHOC: GA N\\u00B0823782, SHARE-COVID19: GA N\\u00B0101015924) and by DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion through VS 2015/0195, VS 2016/0135, VS 2018/0285, VS 2019/0332, and VS 2020/0313. Additional funding from the German Ministry of Education and Research, the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, the U.S. National Institute on Aging (U01_AG09740-13S2, P01_AG005842, P01_AG08291, P30_AG12815, R21_AG025169, Y1-AG-4553-01, IAG_BSR06-11, OGHA_04-064, HHSN271201300071C, RAG052527A) and from various national funding sources is gratefully acknowledged (see www.share-project.org ). Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Authors