test
Search publications, data, projects and authors

Thesis

French

ID: <

10670/1.cmsvbw

>

Where these data come from
The "weak link" in the french regulation of health expenditure : unexpected behaviours of self-employed physicians : four microeconometric longitudinal approaches

Abstract

The main aim of that doctoral dissertation is to comprehend "the weak link" in the French system of regulation and control of health expenditure, understood us a residual, "hidden" element, which prevents the system from reaching the targets. We use the economic and econometric methods to prove the hypothesis that unexpected and wasteful medical behaviour can be caused by the public policy. There are four micro-econometric studies (which are economic, sociological and quantitative) of the French general self-employed practitioner’s behavioural evolution. We focus on the practitioner’s voluntary choices of the pricing practices and on the medical practice organisation. In the econometric studies, we use an unbalanced panel data comprising 8131 self-employed physicians who were observed over the 1979-2000 period and who are representative of the medical population, and different econometric methods depending on the analysis. Our results offer an empirical understanding of an unexpected medical behaviour phenomenon; they offer information about the practitioner’s rationality kind, the practitioner’s motivations, the factors exerting influence on their choices; and they offer clarification of the public policy’s inefficiency. Also, our results propose observations about a recommendation for policy measures and new approaches for the future research.

Your Feedback

Please give us your feedback and help us make GoTriple better.
Fill in our satisfaction questionnaire and tell us what you like about GoTriple!