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According to economic theory, health insurance raises medical care consumptions by inducing ex-post moral hazard … behavior, it is to say the purchase of health care that individual value below their production cost. Nevertheless, among the … resources in case of illness due to reimbursements, reflecting a better access to health care. Understanding which of these …
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This paper derives the properties of the discount rate that should be applied to a public-sector project when the affected population has heterogeneous degrees of impatience. We show that, for any distribution of discount rates, the social discount rate has the following properties: it decreases...
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We address the problem of a social planner who, as in Weitzman (2001), gathers data on discount rates and wants to infer the socially efficient consumption discount rate. We propose an equilibrium approach and we analyse the expression and the properties of the resulting equilibrium discount...
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Rationnel Les études médicoéconomiques sont rares dans l'arthrose. Son traitement par acide hyaluronique conduit-il à un surcoût ? Méthodes Étude observationnelle, multicentrique, longitudinale de type « avant–après » évaluant les conséquences médicoéconomiques d'un traitement...
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perspective of the national health insurance system during the 3 months before and the 6 months after three intraarticular …
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The standard literature on the value of life relies on Yaari’s (1965) model, which includes an implicit assumption of risk neutrality with respect to life duration. To overpass this limitation, we extend the theory to a simple variety of nonadditively separable preferences. The enlargement we...
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The recently published "Survival and Ventricular Enlargement" (SAVE), prospective controlled trial over 4 years including over 2,000 patients, has shown that long-term treatment with captopril reduced cardiovascular mortality (- 19%) and morbidity in patients with post-infarction left...
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In this study, we tried to estimate the economic potential benefit of the use of fluoxetine (PROZACR 20 mg, Lilly) versus tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) in depression of mild to moderate intensity. Fluoxetine has demonstrated, in controlled studies, significantly lower rates of side-effects...
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This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the ne gative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is de trimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …
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overall health inequality according to the different normative principles. Our results suggest that, in practice, the … contributions of circumstances and efforts to explained health inequality. …
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