Studies find substantial variation in healthcare providers’ treatment behaviour and responses to policies. One potential explanation may be differences in their motivation. However, healthcare providers’ motivation remains an understudied area. This study maps general practitioners’...

Health economists typically use agency theory to predict how physicians respond to various policy schemes. Empirical studies show that many schemes lead to unintended responses, indicating that current theoretical models fail to fully explain physicians’ behaviour. Drawing on key lessons from...

The cost-effectiveness of a series of mutually exclusive colorectal cancer screening programmes with varying screening interval and target group are analysed. Costs and effects for 60 possible screening programmes are simulated on the basis of data collected from a randomized trial initiated in...

If elicited time preferences are to be incorporated into economic evaluations, not only social but also individual preferences may be included. The view of this paper is that social intertemporal preferences should govern social intertemporal choices when prioritising between the saving of lives...

Much of the literature on the value of life is based on the valuation of small reductions in mortality risk with many remaining life years if the fatal outcome is avoided. In contrast, this paper explores valuations of interventions which with varying probability levels offer smaller or moderate...