Econometrics of Health Care

Introduction: the health system in the general economy -- Health expenditure growth and macroeconomic models -- one: supply and demand -- The MIMIC health status index -- Estimating demand for medical care: health as a critical factor for adults and children -- An empirical model of the demand for health care in Belgium -- Reconciling spatial demand/supply imbalances in acute care -- Physicians’ specialty choice and specialty income -- two: functioning: cost and financing -- Subsidies, quality, and regulation in the U.S. nursing home industry -- A Poisson process of which the parameter contains a non-stationary error: application to the analysis of a series of deaths in a large hospital -- The construction of a model for medical cost and labour (MEDIKA) -- The microeconomics and econometrics of bonus systems in health insurance -- Microsimulation of the costs of the health system in the Federal Republic of Germany -- three: synthesis -- Segmentation and classification. An application to patients’ risk estimation -- A general equilibrium model of health care.