We investigate the effects on health care costs and utilization of team-based primary care delivery: Quebec's Family Medicine Groups (FMGs). FMGs include extended hours, patient enrollment and multidisciplinary teams, but they maintain the same remuneration scheme (fee-for-service) as outside...

Context: During the 1980s and 1990s, innovations in the organization, funding, and delivery of primary health care in Canada were at the periphery of the system rather than at its core. In the early 2000s, a new policy environment emerged. Methods: This policy analysis examines primary health...

fin d’accroître le nombre de personnes ayant un médecin de famille – nombre qui est relativement faible au Québec – le ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux a mis en place, en 2008, les guichets d’accès pour la clientèle orpheline (GACO). La politique GACO avait pour...

It is known how the different forms of reinsurance must perform in theory but in practical use, because of the multitude of parameters involved, the complexity is such that it is impossible to identify whether a contract is or is not optimal. The interactions between an insurer's retention...

We experimentally measure the ability of subjects to coordinate on issues related to the H1N1 inuenza virus before and after an outbreak. Our instrument consists of an H1N1 survey converted into a coordination game. We show that the degree of coordination on beliefs about (1) H1N1 prevention,...

Au Canada et au Québec, l'assurance-maladie publique procure un accès équitable aux soins de santé à tous les individus, indépendamment de leur capacité à payer. Toutefois, cela pourrait se faire au prix d'une surconsommation importante de soins médicaux. En effet, l'apparente gratuité...

U.S. cancer screening guidelines recommend that cancer screening begin for breast cancer at age 40 and for colorectal cancer and prostate cancers at age 50. What are the marginal returns to physician and individual compliance with these cancer screening guidelines? We estimate the marginal...

We experimentally measure the ability of subjects to coordinate on issues related to the H1N1 influenza virus before and after an outbreak. Our instrument consists of an H1N1 survey converted into a coordination game. We show that the degree of coordination on beliefs about (1) H1N1 prevention,...

Does health insurance affect health and, if so, via what mechanisms? In this paper, we consider a relatively unexplored area in the economics literature, the effects of health insurance on health in the context of latent undiagnosed disease. Specifically, we use a regression discontinuity (RD)...