Showing papers by "Guy Carrin published in 1984"
TL;DR: The estimation results show that income and relative prices matter in the demand for medical care, and supplier induced demand is also detected for a number of medical care categories.
Abstract: The paper presents an empirical model of the demand of health care in Belgium. The analysis pertains to 17 categories of medical care and to two subgroups of health insurance beneficiaries, namely the ‘active’ and the ‘widows, orphans, pensioners and invalids’. The estimation results show that income and relative prices matter in the demand for medical care. Supplier induced demand is also detected for a number of medical care categories. Other explanatory variables in the model include the size of the child population, climatic conditions and a time trend, representing technological advances in health care.
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TL;DR: This study analyzes a number of economic evaluation techniques that can be used by the economist in helping decision-makers make choices about the allocation of scarce resources in health care and the organization of health interventions.
10 citations