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- Économie et Statistique - 455-456 - May 2013
Économie et Statistique - 455-456 - May 2013
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Chantal Cases et Brigitte Dormont
En France, l'analyse économique peine encore à trouver sa place dans les décisions touchant à la régulation du système de santé. Les administrations concernées restent en partie marquées par une tradi...
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Assessing Health Policies: A Solution for A Fair Consideration of Individual Interest
Marc Fleurbaey, Stéphane Luchini, Erik Schokkaert et Carine Van de Voorde
Two methods are generally used to assess health policies. The cost-benefit approach rests on the sum of individual willingnesses to pay (WTPs). It respects individual preferences but emphasizes the pr...
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Differences in Health Status in France: Unequal Opportunities or a Reflection of Risky Behaviours?
Florence Jusot, Sandy Tubeuf et Alain Trannoy
Is health inequality in France due mainly to unequal opportunity caused by circumstances such as personal origin, or to differences in individual behaviour? This question is important for defining he...
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Applying for Supplementary Health Insurance Vouchers: Lessons of A Social Experiment
Sophie Guthmuller, Florence Jusot, Jérôme Wittwer et Caroline Desprès
In 2005, the French government introduced a plan called Aide Complémentaire Santé (ACS). Aimed at households whose living standards were just below the eligibility threshold for supplementary universa...
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Brigitte Dormont, Pierre-Yves Geoffard et Karine Lamiraud
Many countries have introduced competitive mechanisms in health insurance along with regulations to avoid risk selection and guarantee solidarity between the sick and the healthy. The “regulated compe...
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Reforming the Primary-Care Reimbursement System: A Microsimulation-Based Analysis
Pierre-Yves Geoffard et Grégoire de Lagasnerie
The changes in the system of healthcare reimbursement by public insurance agencies have gradually reduced public coverage of sickness risk. The system leaves the insured to bear expenses that can prov...
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Are Location Strategies of French General Practitioners Driven by Economic or Hedonic Mechanisms?
Eric Delattre et Anne-Laure Samson
France displays a high medical density but a highly uneven geographic distribution of general practitioners (GPs). Because it raises problems of fairness and efficiency, this unsatisfactory distributi...
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Brigitte Dormont et Carine Milcent
This article seeks to explain the productivity differences observed in France between public hospitals, private non-profit hospitals (French acronym: PSPH), and private for-profit clinics. We examine ...
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Recent Trends in Public-Hospital Productivity
Nicolas Studer
After several decades of robust growth in health spending, the efficiency of these expenditures is coming under closer scrutiny. Using the detailed description of short-stay procedures supplied by the...
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