This Study provides an analytical overview of the state of the European Union medical device industry with regard to the following aspects: a) the impact of innovation in medical devices on health costs and expenditure; b) the innovativeness of the European medical device industry; c) the...

All'indomani della pubblicazione della bozza di Finanziaria-2008, il Quaderno invita a riflettere su alcuni aspetti critici dell'articolo 5 in tema di spesa farmaceutica pubblica. L'analisi comparata delle dinamiche di settore/mercato induce a suggerire che: (a) le modalità di pricing al lancio...

La letteratura suggerisce che l'applicazione del reference pricing avvenga solo sugli off-patent, sulla base di cluster chimico-terapeutico-biologici, con prezzo di rimborso allineato a quello del prodotto più economico. Non mancano, tuttavia, segnalazioni di criticità, riconducibili alle...

Si presenta la prima versione di FarmaRegio, modello econometrico per l'analisi della variabilità regionale della spesa farmaceutica territoriale convenzionata (un panel ad effetti casuali). Si suggeriscono due prospettive di lettura: da un lato, la valutazione della significatività delle...

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of regulatory policy on the supply of outpatient services and on their geographical distribution in the Czech Republic. The analysis of regulatory policy is based on the review of literature. Trends and regional distribution were analysed...

We study mechanisms to construct equal-opportunity policies for resource allocation. In our model agents enjoy welfare as a function of the effort they expend, and the amount of a socially provided resource they consume. Nevertheless, agents have interdependent allocations. As in the standard...

Using a contingent valuation survey, people’s willingness to pay for a given risk reduction is found to be much larger when traveling by air compared to by taxi. Follow-up questions revealed that an important reason for this discrepancy is that many experience a higher mental suffering from...

The aim of this paper is to analyze business owners’ expected changes in turnover due to a general smoking ban in restaurants, bars and cafés in Sweden. This is accomplished using a survey mailed out to all 642 restaurants, bars, cafés and nightclubs in Gothenburg. The results show that the...

Presenting Health Care should have priority because of importance of health care for individuals and society. Today, with understanding importance of this point different political ideas and economic ideas put a lot of effort to increase the individual’s productivity and average life...

Because tort law generally and healthcare regulation specifically are traditional state functions and because medical, legal, and insurance practices are highly localized, legal scholars have long believed that medical malpractice falls within the states' exclusive jurisdiction and sovereignty....