We study the psycho-social determinants of self-assessed health in order to explain social inequalities in health in France.We use a unique general population survey to assess the respective impact on self-assessed health status of subjective perceptions of social capital, social support, and...

[fre] Philippe Choné Michel Grignon Ronan Mahieu Quelles fonctions économiques pour des opérateurs de soins dans le système de santé français ? Cet article part d'un constat empirique : dans de nombreux pays, une nouvelle fonction économique émerge, qui consiste non seulement à acheter...

[eng] When most health economists use the term « moral hazard », they usually refer to the fact that insured individuals tend to have higher health expenses than those who have no or less coverage. In 1968, Pauly demonstrated that this moral hazard generates a welfare loss. Detailing the...

National health systems organize and regulate two types of public policies : first, as any social policy would, they transfer income, from rich to poor and healthy to sick, as well as from patients to health care providers. Second, they regulate the production and delivery of health, an...

In this paper we evaluate the respective effects of demographic change, changes in morbidity and changes in practices on growth in health care expenditures. We use microdata, i.e. representative samples of 3441 and 5003 French individuals observed in 1992 and 2000. Our data provide detailed...

We study the extent and drivers of income-related inequity in utilization of dental services in Canada using the concentration-index approach that has been widely applied to study inequity in physician and hospital services. Because dental care is almost wholly privately financed in Canada, our...

Migration economics is a dynamic, fast-growing research area with significant and rising policy relevance. While its scope is continually extending, there is no authoritative treatment of its various branches in one volume. Written by 44 leading experts in the field, this carefully commissioned...

To obtain, over medium term periods, wind speed time series on a site, located in the southern part of the Paris region (France), where long recording are not available, but where nearby meteorological stations provide large series of data, use was made of ANN based models. The performance of...