Parmi les facteurs explicatifs proposés pour expliquer les inégalités sociales de santé, la littérature épidémiologique a récemment mis en avant l’influence du milieu social d’origine sur l’état de santé à l’âge adulte, cette influence résultant à la fois d’un effet...

When evaluating new drugs or treatments eligible for reimbursement, health technology assessment (HTA) agencies are repeatedly faced with cost-effectiveness analyses that evidence lack of adequate data and modeling biases. The case of type 2 diabetes illustrates this difficulty. In spite of its...

[eng] The Induced Demand Hypothesis: an Economic Assessment by Lise Rochaix and Stéphane Jacobzone . In health economics the induced demand hypothesis is bringing about a transformation in the way health-care demand is perceived. It posits that health-care demand does not simply reflect choice...

[fre] Asymétries d'information et incertitude en santé : les apports de la théorie des contrats . par Lise Rochaix . Le caractère imparfait, voire asymétrique, de l'information dont dispose le patient conduit à remettre en cause l'utilisation du modèle néoclassique standard et à...

[eng] Physicans' payment schemes . This paper reviews some of the results from the economic literature on physicians' payment schemes. The main objective is to offer a critical perspective on the current payment system in France and to define possible avenues of reform. To do so, useful lessons...

The aim of this paper is to model a liberal profession, in this case physicians. We propose a model in which the physician acts in the same way as an agent who maximises his utility function subject to his budget constraint, while at the same time being able to affect his rate of remuneration....