This volume contains selected papers from the First European Conference on Health Economics, held in Barcelona on 19-21 September 1989. The meeting was organized by the Spanish Health Economics Association (AES) and chaired by L. Bohigas. The following groups participated: the English Health Economists' Study Group, the Associa

Incentives in Health Systems: Introduction and Outline

I: Policy Issues
Incentives: For What? For Whom? What Kind?
Incentives, Ethics and Clinical Freedom
Provider Behaviour in Health Care: Some Notes on Theory
Incentive Contracts
Incentives for Healthy Consumer Behaviour and Intersectorial Measures for Health Targets
Reflections on Incentives and Health System Reform
II: Research on Health System Incentives
Theoretical Developments
Fee-for-Service and Quantity Rationing in the Physician Services Market
Coexistence of Private and Public Health Care: Some Implications for Demand and Resource Allocation
Distribution Effects of Coinsurance Options in Social Health Insurance Systems
Health Insurance Reforms and Incentives in the Netherlands
Equity in the Finance of Health Care: Effects of the Dutch Health Insurance Reform
Incentives to be Healthy: An Economic Model of Health-Related Behaviour
Case Studies
Drug Price Information and Cost-Consciousness of Physicians: Results of a Survey of Belgian General Practitioners
Joint Price and Quantity Regulation in the Market for Physicians' Services: The Quebec Experiment
Redefining Incentives in Primary Medical Care: The Finnish Demonstration Project
Hospital Financing in Spain: Incentives and Equity
Prevention and Compensation of Work-Related Injuries and Diseases in France: Contribution of Insurance Economics.