In this essay a conceptual and theoretical scheme for decentralized integrated health care systems of the northern European kind is developed. With small changes it is also applicable to other countries, e.g. Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Three ideas tie together the scheme: modified fiscal...

Patient mobility is a crucial phenomenon in contexts of hospital competition based on quality and driven by patient choice. This study examines inter-regional patient mobility in the Italian National Health Service, a regionally decentralised tax-funded system in which in-patient hospital...

We use the same methodology, that Ecofin-Oecd apply for projecting expenditure in the medium-long term, to reconstruct expenditure in the medium-long past. It is possible to compare the effective expenditure with the reconstructed one. The effective expenditure is of course influenced by policy...

We examine whether state government responses to rising Medicaid costs cause reduced low income assistance, overall state budget cuts, or higher taxes. We segment Medicaid recipient groups into families, the disabled, and the elderly. Using GMM estimation, we instrument for endogenous program...

The herding of expert opinions is often rationalized as the outcome of social learning. However, experts are typically individuals with career concerns. As a result,herding can also arise from the fear of opposing consensus opinion and the potential career consequences of being wrong. We...

Questo Working Paper porta un esempio di criterio di ripartizione del Fsn tra le Regioni. Il criterio rimane coerente, in termini generali, con le indicazioni contenute nel "Decreto legislativo in materia di autonomia di entrata delle Regioni a statuto ordinario e delle Province, nonché...

Il presente rapporto analizza l'impatto del DL 15/04/2002 n. 63 del Governo Italiano ("Misure per il contenimento della spesa farmaceutica"), con particolare riferimento agli effetti indotti da tali misure sulle decisioni di investimento delle imprese, sulla struttura dell'industria di...

The paper empirically examines the important factors determining states’ expenditure on medical and public health and total health expenditure, verifies the importance of federal transfers and observes whether health is a luxury in India. To this end, a panel data set for four southern Indian...

La descentralización territorial y la sustitución del Sistema Nacional de Salud (SNS) por un sistema de competencia regulada redefinieron el funcionamiento del sistema de salud colombiano a finales de la década de los ochenta y comienzos de los noventa. En particular, en el SNS las...

Dopo il rilascio dell'Autorizzazione all'Immissione in Commercio, un farmaco "H", prima di divenire concretamente disponibile in ospedale, deve completare una trafila che può differire da Regione a Regione, e addirittura, all'interno di una stessa Regione, da ASL ad ASL o da ospedale ad...