Since 1997, a portion of French public hospital budgets is redistributed from low-to high performance regions and hospitals. The measure of performance is the case-mix adjusted cost per stay. The fairness of such a redistribution, which resembles yardstick competition, must take account of the...

Early detection and prevention are essential in the management of childhood obesity. The "public health" approach has expanded the scope of the traditional economic analysis to study the supply of prevention : the role of doctors is particularly crucial to the provision of secondary prevention...

The goal of this study was to examine the impact of research activities on hospital costs and lengths of stay in French public hospitals. Our data consist of a random sample of 30 000 inpatient stays in 38 hospitals that were extracted from the French Hospital Cost Survey database. Hospital...

Objective: To assess the temporal relationship between the uptake of more aggressive antiretroviral (ARV) therapy and the use and cost of hospital treatment for HIV-infected patients in France from 1995 to 2000 from a hospital perspective. Methods: Analysis of evolutions in health status (CD4+...

A representative sample of 611 French pediatricians was interviewed on their knowledge, attitudes, beliefs towards and practices regarding childhood obesity through a 39-item Likert format questionnaire. A vast majority of the respondents regarded obesity as an illness (86.4%), 70.2% were aware...