Is, or should, healthcare be profitable? Over and above “private” health, does it have an effect on public health? Improved living conditions are sometimes considered to play a more important role in greater life expectancy than medicine. Even though this may have been true in the 19th...

The prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome (amniocentesis) presents parents with a complex dilemma which requires comparing the risk of giving birth to an affected child and the risk of losing an unaffected child through amniocentesis-related miscarriage. Building on the specific features of the...

This chapter aims to quantify and compare inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries considering two alternative normative ways of treating the correlation between effort, as measured by lifestyles, and circumstances, as measured by parental and childhood characteristics,...

This paper investigates the impact of health risk on insurance contract with hazard moral. We use a bi-dimensional utility function (wealth and health status). We prove that the type of health risk influences the equilibrium of insurance market. A full coverage is possible with moral hazard....

Le projet Monaco (Méthodes, outils et normes pour la mise en commun des données des assurances complémentaire et obligatoire) représente une première étape visant à mettre en place un système d’information qui permette d’améliorer la connaissance des restes à charge des assurés...

Cette communication présente la problématique et les résultats d’une étude européenne conduite sur la maladie d’Alzheimer dans huit pays de la Communauté en 1997 et 1998. L’objectif de cette étude était de produire des éléments de comparaison et d’évaluation des différents...

In this paper we focus on a fundamental tension between the economies of agglomeration available to health care organizations and the impacts of spatial concentration of health care organizations on overall health outcomes. We identify plausible measures of health care concentration and...