) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

health, demand for medical services and patient's compliance. The models imply that in addition to existing information … care has a negative impact on the self-related health and that neighbourhood and environmental conditions have an impact … too. Furthermore, patient's compliance positively affects the self-related health and in most cases, labour conditions are …

neglect the fact that the production of health not only depends on the medical services supplied by the physician but is also …

implement increased competition in the health insurance system of Germany (or somewhere else), detailed analyses are needed and …A draft of a reform towards "socially bounded competition" within the health care system indicates, first of all, that … several areas of such an insurance system would have to be regulated by the state. Such a reform is much more complicated than …

This paper surveys the decision-theoretic foundations of health care production and derives policy implications. The … that the efficiency in the adoption of new technology is enhanced. Neither central planning, nor an extension of … specific reforms in ambulatory, stationary and managed care that would help to enhance the innovative capacity and efficiency …