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The strategy currently adopted in France to deal with the ever-growing health expenditures is one of freezing compulsory deductions and broadening the scope of complementary insurance, while at the same time reaffirming that such insurance is optional. But individual freedom to take out...
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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...
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En France, l’offre de soins ambulatoires est régulée depuis 1971 par le numerus clausus, qui fixe le nombre d’étudiants admis en deuxième année de médecine. Fixé initialement à 8 588 places, il n’a vraiment diminué qu’à partir de 1978, jusqu’à atteindre 3 500 places en 1993....
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The purpose of this paper is to study hospital costs in the event of introduction of a Prospective Payment System in France. We use a nested three dimensional database (stays-hospitals-years) to identify hospital unobservable heterogeneity and a transitory moral hazard component of cost...
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. Readmission rates are valid outcome indicators for some clinical procedures. Methods Retrospective study of the association …
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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 similar definitions of the concept but explore...
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High prices and insufficient quality of care are observed in nursing homes in France. Reforms are currently under discussion, but governments are facing a dilemma : any measure of price cut is likely to affect quality and any improvement in quality would probably be inflationary. This work...
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En France, l’offre de soins ambulatoires est régulée depuis 1971 par le numerus clausus, qui fixe le nombre d’étudiants admis en deuxième année de médecine. Fixé initialement à 8 588 places, il n’a vraiment diminué qu’à partir de 1978, jusqu’à atteindre 3 500 places en 1993....
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