Econometrics of Health Care

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Health expenditure growth and macroeconomic models

      • Y. Saillard

      Pages 3-16

3. Supply and demand

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. The MIMIC health status index

      • Wynand P. M. M. van de Ven, Evelien M. Hooijmans

      Pages 19-29

   3. Estimating demand for medical care: health as a critical factor for adults and children

      • Jacques van der Gaag, Barbara L. Wolfe

      Pages 31-58

   4. An empirical model of the demand for health care in Belgium

      • Guy Carrin, Jaak van Dael

      Pages 59-78

   5. Reconciling spatial demand/supply imbalances in acute care

      • John R. Roy, Miles Anderson

      Pages 79-94

   6. Physicians’ specialty choice and specialty income

      • Joel W. Hay

      Pages 95-113

4. Functioning: cost and financing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. Subsidies, quality, and regulation in the U.S. nursing home industry

      • Paul J. Gertler

      Pages 117-139

   3. A Poisson process of which the parameter contains a non-stationary error: application to the analysis of a series of deaths in a large hospital

      • Bernard Larcher

      Pages 141-157

   4. The construction of a model for medical cost and labour (MEDIKA)

      • Ralph J. A. M. Van den Broek

      Pages 159-185

   5. The microeconomics and econometrics of bonus systems in health insurance

      • Peter Zweifel

      Pages 187-202

   6. Microsimulation of the costs of the health system in the Federal Republic of Germany

      • Ralph Brennecke

      Pages 203-224

5. Synthesis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225

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   2. Segmentation and classification. An application to patients’ risk estimation

      • J.-P. Auray, G. Duru, M. Terrenoire, D. Tounissoux, A. Zighed

      Pages 227-235

   3. A general equilibrium model of health care

      • Manas Chatterji, Jean H. P. Paelinck

      Pages 237-248

6. Back Matter

   Pages 250-250

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Econometrics of Health Care - which we have sometimes called 'medico­ metrics' - is a field in full expansion. The reasons are numerous: our knowl­ edge of quantitative relations in the field of health econometrics is far from being perfect, a large number of analytical difficulties - combining medical (latent factors, e. g. ) and economic facts (spatial behaviour, e. g. ) are faced by the research worker, medical and pharmaceutical techniques change rapidly, medical costs rocket more than proportionally with available resources, of being tightened. medical budgets are in the process So it is not surprising that the practice of 'hygieconometrics' - to produce a neologism - is more and more included in the programmes of econometri­ cians. The Applied Econometrics Association has devoted to the topic two symposia in less than three years (Lyons, February 1983; Rotterdam, December 1985), without experiencing any difficulties in getting valuable papers: on econometrics of risks and medical insurance, on the measurement of health status and of efficiency of medical techniques, on general models allowing simulation. These were the themes for the second meeting, but other aspects of medical-economic problems had presented themselves already to the analyst: medical decision making and its consequences, the behaviour of the actors - patients and physicians -, regional medicometrics and what not: some of them have been covered by the first meeting. Finally, in July 1988 took place in Lyons the Fourth International Conference on System Science in Health Care; it should not be astonishing .

• Master Patient Index
• Radiologieinformationssystem
• Simulation
• classification
• econometrics

• Lyons, UK

  G. Duru

• Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  J. H. P. Paelinck

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