Incentives in Health Systems

This volume contains selected papers from the First European Conference on Health Economics, held in Barcelona on 19-21 September 1989. The meeting was organized by the Spanish Health Economics Association (AES) and chaired by L. Bohigas. The following groups participated: the English Health Economists' Study Group, the Associa

Incentives in Health Systems: Introduction and Outline. - I: Policy Issues. - Incentives: For What? For Whom? What Kind? . - Incentives, Ethics and Clinical Freedom. - Provider Behaviour in Health Care: Some Notes on Theory. - Incentive Contracts. - Incentives for Healthy Consumer Behaviour and Intersectorial Measures for Health Targets. - Reflections on Incentives and Health System Reform. - II: Research on Health System Incentives. - Theoretical Developments. - Fee-for-Service and Quantity Rationing in the Physician Services Market. - Coexistence of Private and Public Health Care: Some Implications for Demand and Resource Allocation. - Distribution Effects of Coinsurance Options in Social Health Insurance Systems. - Health Insurance Reforms and Incentives in the Netherlands. - Equity in the Finance of Health Care: Effects of the Dutch Health Insurance Reform. - Incentives to be Healthy: An Economic Model of Health-Related Behaviour. - Case Studies. - Drug Price Information and Cost-Consciousness of Physicians: Results of a Survey of Belgian General Practitioners. - Joint Price and Quantity Regulation in the Market for Physicians Services: The Quebec Experiment. - Redefining Incentives in Primary Medical Care: The Finnish Demonstration Project. - Hospital Financing in Spain: Incentives and Equity. - Prevention and Compensation of Work-Related Injuries and Diseases in France: Contribution of Insurance Economics.