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This volume analyses whether and how cost to the patient influences physicians' treatment choices and patients' decision-making process for pharmaceutical and primary care services, in seven different reimbursement systems in Europe: Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK.
A group of scholars converging on a common and socially relevant economic theme of research, that of households' welfare and poverty, met several times in the last two years to discuss the research progress and the opportunity to bring to gether for publication the research so far accomplished. They shared a research project supported by a grant from the former Italian Ministero dell'Universita e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (MURST) now Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR): The Equiva lence Scales in the Measurement of Households' Welfare: Statistical, Economic and Demographic Analysis. The decisive meeting, an international seminar on the topics, was ...
This book combines a collection of essays by leading experts from several OECD countries with papers discussing the results of the OECD Ageing-Related Diseases study.
In Enterprise and Inclusion in Italy, Edmund Phelps weaves together and applies to Italy his two principal interests of the past decade -the imperative of restoring initiative, enterprise and dynamism in a great many industrialized economies, most acutely needed in the eastern European economies amid the wreckage of their experiments with market socialism and communism, and the imperative of extending self-support and involvement in the business sector to the large number of marginalized workers, where his focus was on the high rates of dependency, idleness and crime among less educated in the United States.
Illuminates the causes and consequences of technological change in health care in the developed world
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Nutrition -- Height -- Health -- Child labour -- Education -- Migration -- Income -- Inequality -- Poverty -- Wealth -- Vulnerability -- Human development -- Household budgets -- Cost of living
Includes sections "Rassegna delle pubblicazioni economiche" and "Rassegna della stampa economica periodica."
This report examines how the two global mega-trends of population ageing and rising inequalities have been developing and interacting, both within and across generations.
Presented in this volume are various contributions on the functioning and the dynamics of the prescription drug markets. Key issues such as switching drugs from prescription to over the counter (OTC); regulation versus competition; the search and patent terms; international comparisons of innovation processes; and patterns of consumption are all discussed in the book. At a time when many challenges are happening in the industry (e.g. stronger American and Japanese competition, regulatory changes, pressure for more cost containment, and decline of innovation), the book provides useful analysis of some of these changes.