Health, the Medical Profession, and Regulation

1. Front Matter

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2. Health

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Impact of the Environment on the Demands for Health and Health Care: An Empirical Analysis for Germany

      • Manfred Erbsland, Walter Ried, Volker Ulrich

      Pages 3-34

   3. The Demand for Health: An Empirical test of the Grossman Model Using Panel Data

      • Sandra Nocera, Peter Zweifel

      Pages 35-49

   4. Counting And Discounting Gained Life-Years

      • Jes Søgaard, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen

      Pages 51-74

   5. Inequality in Infant Mortality in Portugal, 1971–1991

      • João A. Pereira

      Pages 75-93

   6. Health, Work-Hours, and Wages in Sweden

      • Gun Sundberg

      Pages 95-112

   7. The Determinants of Health Expenditure in the OECD Countries: A Pooled data Analysis

      • Ulf-G Gerdtham, Bengt Jönsson, Maitland MacFarlan, Howard Oxley

      Pages 113-134

3. The Medical Profession

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Clinical Response Of Salaried Consultants To Economic Incentives

      • Tor Iversen

      Pages 137-158

   3. The Use of Multilevel Analysis in Health Economics: An Application to Examining The Effect of Competition on General Practitioners’ Behaviour

      • Anthony Scott, Alan Shiell

      Pages 159-168

   4. A Comparative Application of Econometric Frontier and Dea Methods for Assessing Cost Efficiency of Finnish Hospitals

      • Miika Linna, Unto Häkkinen

      Pages 169-187

4. Regulation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. Financial Incentives and Primary Care Provision in Britain: Do General Practitioners Maximise Their Income?

      • Mauricea Lynch

      Pages 191-210

   3. Cream-Skimming in Deregulated Social Health Insurance: Evidence from Switzerland

      • Konstantin Beck, Peter Zweifel

      Pages 211-227

   4. Modeling Cross-Border Care in the EU Using a Principal-Agent Framework

      • Luca Crivelli, Peter Zweifel

      Pages 229-257

5. Back Matter

   Pages 259-263

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Health, The Medical Profession, and Regulation presents new evidence concerning health and the environment, inequality of health in many countries, and the compatibility of different quality of life measurements, along with new solutions to problems of health policy. The book is grouped into three sections. Section I, comprising six papers, looks into the determinants of people's health. Section II consists of three papers and deals with the supply side of the market for health care services. Finally, Section III contains three contributions devoted to health regulation. The intended market for this volume includes, but is not limited to, health economists, policy makers, insurers, and governmental advisors who need to stay abreast of the latest developments in health services research worldwide.

• competition
• economics
• efficiency
• health
• health care
• health policy
• hospital
• quality of life
• regulation

• Socioeconomic Institute, University of Zürich, Switzerland

  Peter Zweifel

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