The criterion of cost-effectiveness in health management may be given a welfaretheoretical justification if people are risk neutral with respect to life years. With risk aversion, the optimal allocation of health expenditures change: Compared to the costeffective allocation, more resources...

Typically, the participation rate is below 100 per cent. In this paper pecuniary compensation is used to increase the participation rate. In a postal questionnaire to 5,000 people invited to screening for colorectal cancer, those not participating were asked "would you participate if you were...

A central theme in the international debate on genetic testing concerns the extent to which insurance companies should be allowed to use genetic information in their design of insurance contracts. This issue is analysed within a model with the following important feature: A person's well-being...

Aggregated medical spending differs widely across countries and large variations exist in the frequency and the mix of medical services provided, as well as the type of technology applied. The outcomes (mostly measured as survival rates) do not, however vary to the same extent as the spending....

Fordi paneldata gir oss muligheter til å kontrollere for individspesifikk og/eller tidsspesifikk heterogenitet er det mange fordeler ved å benytte denne typen data i økonometriske undersøkelser (Biørn, 2000). Hensikten med denne rapporten er ikke resultater per se, det sentrale er snarere...

Formålet med dette notatet er å konstruere en indeks for å kunne belyse den norske befolknings tilgjengelighet til offentlig finansierte spesialisthelsetjenester. Geografiske variasjoner mellom alle kommunene beregnes i en tilgjengelighetsindeks, for spesialisthelsetjenester utført ved...

We present a stated-preference study where values of statistical lives (VSL) are derived both as public and private goods, and we distinguish between three different death causes, heart disease, environmentally related illnesses and traffic accidents. 1000 randomly chosen individuals in Norway...

What factors contribute to the utilization of specialist health care in Norway, and to what extent is the policy goal of allocating health care according to peoples medical need fulfilled? With this scope the authors analyse the impact of a person's health relative to the impact of access to...

Dette notatet tar kort for seg hvilke faser regionaliseringen av spesialisthelsetjenesten har vært i gjennom de siste 30 årene og hvilke erfaringer som ble høstet i forbindelse med gjennomføringen av det lovpålagte regionale helsesamarbeidet i 1999-2001. Til sist berører notatet enkelte...

This paper studies redistribution by means of a public supply of medical treatment. We show that the government can redistribute income towards low-ability individuals in a world of asymmetric information by offering bundles of medical treatment and redistributive payment. If self-selection is a...