Incentives in health systems : 1st European conference on health eocnomics, Barcelona, 1989

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 Front Matter....Pages I-XIII Incentives in Health Systems: Introduction and Outline....Pages 1-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Incentives: For What? For Whom? What Kind?....Pages 15-23 Incentives, Ethics and Clinical Freedom....Pages 24-30 Provider Behaviour in Health Care: Some Notes on Theory....Pages 31-43 Incentive Contracts....Pages 44-57 Incentives for Healthy Consumer Behaviour and Intersectorial Measures for Health Targets....Pages 58-74 Reflections on Incentives and Health System Reform....Pages 75-95 Front Matter....Pages 97-97 Fee-for-Service and Quantity Rationing in the Physician Services Market....Pages 99-108 Coexistence of Private and Public Health Care: Some Implications for Demand and Resource Allocation....Pages 109-119 Distribution Effects of Coinsurance Options in Social Health Insurance Systems....Pages 120-133 Health Insurance Reforms and Incentives in the Netherlands....Pages 134-152 Equity in the Finance of Health Care: Effects of the Dutch Health Insurance Reform....Pages 153-168 Incentives to be Healthy: An Economic Model of Health-Related Behaviour....Pages 169-187 Drug Price Information and Cost-Consciousness of Physicians: Results of a Survey of Belgian General Practitioners....Pages 188-201 Joint Price and Quantity Regulation in the Market for Physicians’ Services: The Quebec Experiment....Pages 202-223 Redefining Incentives in Primary Medical Care: The Finnish Demonstration Project....Pages 224-238 Hospital Financing in Spain: Incentives and Equity....Pages 239-250 Prevention and Compensation of Work-Related Injuries and Diseases in France: Contribution of Insurance Economics....Pages 251-270 The contents of this book provides a wide range of studies from a research and a practical view on the topic. Financial as well as organization and modus of practice policies are analysed. Provider and consumer behaviour andintersectorial measures from outside the health care sector are studied offering to the reader. The relevant insights for understanding incentive policies in Health care management 1st European Conference on Health Economics, Barcelona, 1989