[eng] Equity in the "Planned Competition" Model of Regulating a Health System by Maryse Gadreau and Claude Schneider-Bunner . The distributive logic of European health systems (contribution depending on income and use depending on need) is indicative of the importance attached to the principle...

Through analysis of the French experience, this article explores the way economic policy has sought to encourage active, well-informed patients by giving them market power. The new status of the patient as consumer is based on two foundations: the endeavour to build a healthcare market and the...

[eng] The network concept has been successful in the economic literature and in the health care economics literature. However the network concept is not easy to define.. In the first part, this paper suggests an evolutionnary and socio-economic network conception based on the following framework...

[eng] Cost-efficiency methods for resource allocation décisions in health care lay on fondations about the functioning of health care system. These foundations can be contestable and this put on question the use of results of these methods. It is then necessary to consider non-standard methods...