Incentives in Health Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Incentives in Health Systems: Introduction and Outline

   1. Incentives in Health Systems: Introduction and Outline

      • G. López-Casasnovas

      Pages 1-12

3. Policy Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Incentives: For What? For Whom? What Kind?

      • A. J. Culyer

      Pages 15-23

   3. Incentives, Ethics and Clinical Freedom

      • A. Williams

      Pages 24-30

   4. Provider Behaviour in Health Care: Some Notes on Theory

      • R. Gerritse, P. Vrancken

      Pages 31-43

   5. Incentive Contracts

      • A. Maynard

      Pages 44-57

   6. Incentives for Healthy Consumer Behaviour and Intersectorial Measures for Health Targets

      • J. Rovira

      Pages 58-74

   7. Reflections on Incentives and Health System Reform

      • G. L. Stoddart

      Pages 75-95

4. Research on Health System Incentives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Theoretical Developments

      1. Fee-for-Service and Quantity Rationing in the Physician Services Market

         • W. Neudeck

         Pages 99-108

      2. Coexistence of Private and Public Health Care: Some Implications for Demand and Resource Allocation

         • A. E. Risa

         Pages 109-119

      3. Distribution Effects of Coinsurance Options in Social Health Insurance Systems

         • F. Breyer

         Pages 120-133

      4. Health Insurance Reforms and Incentives in the Netherlands

         • W. P. M. M. van de Ven

         Pages 134-152

      5. Equity in the Finance of Health Care: Effects of the Dutch Health Insurance Reform

         • E. van Doorslaer, R. Janssen, A. Wagstaff, J. van Emmerik, F. Rutten

         Pages 153-168

      6. Incentives to be Healthy: An Economic Model of Health-Related Behaviour

         • S. Birch, G. Stoddart

         Pages 169-187

   3. Case Studies

      1. Drug Price Information and Cost-Consciousness of Physicians: Results of a Survey of Belgian General Practitioners

         • D. de Graeve, G. Carrin

         Pages 188-201

      2. Joint Price and Quantity Regulation in the Market for Physicians’ Services: The Quebec Experiment

         • L. Rochaix

         Pages 202-223

      3. Redefining Incentives in Primary Medical Care: The Finnish Demonstration Project

         • M. Pekurinen, I. Vohlonen, H. Sintonen

         Pages 224-238

      4. Hospital Financing in Spain: Incentives and Equity

         • M. Casas, E. Spagnolo

         Pages 239-250

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

• Gesundheitssystem
• Public Health
• care
• consumer behaviour
• diseases
• economics
• ethics
• health
• health care
• health economics
• hospital
• intersectorial targets
• organizations
• prevention
• provider prectices

• Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Departamento de Hacienda Pública, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  Guillem López-Casasnovas

Policies and ethics