increasingly popular among health policy- makers during the last decade. Typically, such schemes attach financial incentives to a … likely to cause substantial change to the environment in which health care providers operate. Since monitoring of physician …, have a positive impact on patients’ health benefit. The results also suggest that disclosure of physician performance …

In the following paper we estimate the impact of obesity in childhood on health and health service use in England using … instrumental variables. We use data on children and adolescents aged 3-18 years old from fifteen rounds of the Health Survey for … England (1998-2012), which has measures of self-assessed health, primary care use, prescribed medication use, and nurse …

In this paper we propose a simple, market based mechanism to set prices in health care markets, namely a system where … designed. In the case of elective treatment, health authorities thus organize a competition between hospitals. The hospital …