Incentives in Health Systems

Incentives in Health Systems: Introduction and Outline.- I: Policy Issues.- Incentives: For What? For Whom? What Kind?.- Incentives, Ethics and Clinical Freedom.- Provider Behaviour in Health Care: Some Notes on Theory.- Incentive Contracts.- Incentives for Healthy Consumer Behaviour and Intersectorial Measures for Health Targets.- Reflections on Incentives and Health System Reform.- II: Research on Health System Incentives.- Theoretical Developments.- Fee-for-Service and Quantity Rationing in the Physician Services Market.- Coexistence of Private and Public Health Care: Some Implications for Demand and Resource Allocation.- Distribution Effects of Coinsurance Options in Social Health Insurance Systems.- Health Insurance Reforms and Incentives in the Netherlands.- Equity in the Finance of Health Care: Effects of the Dutch Health Insurance Reform.- Incentives to be Healthy: An Economic Model of Health-Related Behaviour.- Case Studies.- Drug Price Information and Cost-Consciousness of Physicians: Results of a Survey of Belgian General Practitioners.- Joint Price and Quantity Regulation in the Market for Physicians' Services: The Quebec Experiment.- Redefining Incentives in Primary Medical Care: The Finnish Demonstration Project.- Hospital Financing in Spain: Incentives and Equity.- Prevention and Compensation of Work-Related Injuries and Diseases in France: Contribution of Insurance Economics.