Incentives in Health Systems [Paperback]

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 Associa1st European Conference on Health Economics, Barcelona, 1989This 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 AssociaIncentives 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: Incenl#!