gatekeeping, the first half of the chapter examines literature on agency, patient choice and preferences for GP services, and the …

Health economists typically use agency theory to predict how physicians respond to various policy schemes. Empirical … physicians’ behaviour. Drawing on key lessons from social psychology and public administration literatures, we propose to expand … the principal-agent framework by unfolding physicians’ non-pecuniary motives to provide care using three components …

physicians who experience a shortage of patients have higher income, longer and more frequent consultations and more laboratory …

patient driven competition between GPs and specialists. Most of the literature on the performance of primary care has dealt … contrary, the patient's role is reconsidered while taking providers' payment schemes as given (either fee-for-service or …. They are compared on their performance at minimising both total financial costs and patient's opportunity cost of treatment …