This paper offers an integrated view of the relationships between health spending, medical innovation, health status, growth and welfare. Health spending triggers technological progress, which is a potential source of better outcomes in terms of longevity and quality of life, a direct source of...

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...

European health care systems are facing diverse challenges. In health policy, strong primary care is seen as key to deal with these challenges. European countries differ in how strong their primary care systems are. Two groups of traditionally weak primary care systems are distinguished. First a...

This article examines the link between restrictions on the number of physicians and general practitioners' (GPs) earnings. Using a representative panel of 6016 French self-employed GPs over the years 1983-2004, we estimate an earnings function to identify experience, time and cohort effects. The...

Le lymphoedème des membres supérieurs est une complication relativement fréquente après traitement du cancer du sein par chirurgie et/ou radiothérapie. L'incidence en France est de l'ordre de 3740 cas par an avec une prévalence de 37400 cas environ. Le traitement recommandé associe les...

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,...

Aim: In order to integrate malaria Intermittent Preventive Treatment in infants (IPTi) into the Ghana national immunization programme, there was the need to evaluate the feasibility of IPTi by assessing the intervention operational issues including its implementation costs, and its cost...