Zerth refers to the ongoing debate on the adequate distribution of physicians that are obliged to guarantee the overall … years, he states. From a health economics point of view it has to be discussed which role physicians have to play within … different forms of organizing care and cure. In the paper, a standardized utility function that depicts physicians’ interest …

Abstract This paper analyzes the choice of deductible in insurance contracts that insure against a risk that, as is … perspective of risk-bearing costs, the optimal contract is one that uses an aggregate deductible that applies to the aggregate … costs and moral hazard costs than contracts that apply a per-loss deductible to each loss that occurs. I further show that …

, a survey of physicians involved in the transition from an e-prescribing system to a new integrated drug management … system was conducted. Data about physicians' level of stress induced by the system transition, satisfaction with the new … the transition. Results indicate that physicians experiencing higher level of stress used the new system less during the …

1990s and early 2000s because of high prices of many drugs. We argue that the benefits of pharmaceuticals should be …

pharmaceuticals, medical products and medical procedures. We do not have a general theory on the determinants of technological … advances are mainly driven by the demand, the progress in medical products is driven by spill-over effects from advances in … other areas of the economy and medical procedures are driven by the interest of the researching physicians in raising theirs …

diversification in multiple submarkets and the level of prices. We find that the properties of the technological and demand regimes …

concerned with the market-share figures they achieve in the marketplace to predict the volume of production and demand forecasts …-organized sector (spurious markets) in meeting the demand of spare parts especially in earth moving equipment. They imitate the …