Health, the Medical Profession, and Regulation

Introduction; P. Zweifel. 1. Health. The Impact of the Environment on the Demands for Health, and Health Care. An Empirical Analysis for Germany; M. Erbsland, et al. The Demand for Health. An Empirical Test of the Grossman Model Using Panel Data; S. Nocera, P. Zweifel. Counting and Discounting Gained Life-Years; J. Søgaard, D. Gyrd-Hansen. Inequality in Infant Mortality in Portugal, 1971-1991; J. Pereira. Health, Work-Hours and Wages in Sweden; G. Sundberg. The Determinants of Health Expenditure in the OECD Countries: A Pooled Data Analysis; U. Gerdtham, et al. 2. The Medical Profession. Clinical Response of Salaried Consultants to a Change in Relative Fees; T. Iversen. The Use of Multilevel Analysis in Health Economics: An Application to Examine the Effect of Competition on General Practitioners' Behaviour; A. Scott, A. Shiell. A Comparative Application of Econometric Frontier and DEA Methods for Assessing Cost Efficiency of Finnish Hospitals; M. Linna, U. Häkkinen. 3. Regulation. Financial Incentives and Primary Care Provision in Britain: Do General Practitioners Maximise their Income? M. Lynch. Cream-Skimming in Deregulated Social Health Insurance: Evidence from Switzerland; K. Beck, P. Zweifel. Modeling Cross-Border Care in the EU Using a Principal-Agent Framework; L. Crivelli, P. Zweifel.