The objective of this study consists in quantifying in money terms the potential reduction in usage of public health … care outlets associated to the tenure of double (public plus private) insurance. In order to address the problem, a … probabilistic model for visits to physicians is specified and estimated using data from the Catalonian Health Survey. Also, a model …

This article tries to reconcile economic-industrial policy with health policy when dealing with biomedical innovation … and welfare state sustainability. Better health accounts for an increasingly large proportion of welfare improvements …. Explanation is given to the welfare losses coming from the fact than industrial and health policy tend to ignore each other. Drug …