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. Finally, the link between health risk and co-payment can be invalided. …

We develop a "welfarist" model in which the collective demand for health insurance is mainly explained by a solvability … motive : health insurance does not have for principal function to treat the risk aversion of solvent agents but to make it … health insurance, curiously neglected in the literature, makes it possible to interpret differently the "perverse effects" of …

This chapter aims to quantify and compare inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries considering … opportunity stand for almost 50% of the health inequality due to circumstances and efforts in Barry scenario and 57.5% in Roemer … scenario. The comparison of the magnitude of inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries shows considerable …

Purpose: This paper aims to quantify inequalities of opportunities in health in Europe and to assess whether the way … the correlation between effort towards health and circumstances empirically matters for the magnitude of inequalities of … opportunities in health within Europe. This paper uses the Retrospective Survey of SHARELIFE focusing on life histories of European …

health insurance according to their consumption, without budgetary constraints, but on the condition of good use of care … promote innovation. Such drugs are gathered on a positive list, established by the Ministry of Health, with a reimbursement … specific diagnosis-based level. The purpose of this add-on payment on top of the health funds is firstly to avoid heterogeneity …

This work takes the perspectives of economics and public health to study issues related to the quality of hospital care ….The first chapter introduces the concept of quality of care in economics and public health. We show that the two fields use …

all have equal access to health care. A distinction must be drawn between supplementary insurance (care that is not … essential to health) and complementary insurance (basic health care). In a society such as France, which has decided to use the … solidarity principle to underpin access to basic health care, complementary insurance must be compulsory, and so regulated as to …