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COVID-19 pandemic: a European perspective on health economic policies

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  • Marco Alifano

    (Thoracic Surgery Department, Cochin Hospital, APHP Centre, University of Paris, France
    INSERM U1138 Team "Cancer, Immune Control, and Escape", Cordeliers Research Center, France)

  • Giuseppe Attanasi

    (GREDEG, CNRS, University Côte d'Azur, Nice, France)

  • Fabio Iannelli

    (Intesa San Paolo - Partecipazioni Istituzionali, Milan, Italy)

  • Faredj Cherikh

    (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Department of Psychiatry - Addictions Unit, Archet 2 Hospital, Nice, France)

  • Antonio Iannelli

    (University Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
    Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Digestive Surgery and Liver Transplantation Unit, Archet 2 Hospital, Nice, France
    Inserm, U1065, Team 8 "Hepatic complications of obesity and alcohol", Nice, France)

Abstract

In this contribution, delivered after more than one month of nationwide lockdowns of European countries, we discuss side-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on citizens' access to medical care and the efficiency of national health systems in care provision. In the first section, we stress the importance of indirect mortality, i.e. non-diagnosis of non-COVID diseases whose standard-of-care management could have avoided death during the pandemic. We highlight how indirect mortality is linked to patients' psychological attitudes and behavioral responses to the unforeseen contingencies that the spread of COVID-19 has brought with it. The second section complements the first one by delving into the issue of the sustainability of financing and organization of national hospital systems, framing the discussion within the financial problems that the European Community is facing, which have been exacerbated by the current COVID-19 infection spread. Our interdisciplinary approach combines insights from academic surgery and psychiatry on the one side and behavioral and political economy on the other side.

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  • Marco Alifano & Giuseppe Attanasi & Fabio Iannelli & Faredj Cherikh & Antonio Iannelli, 2020. "COVID-19 pandemic: a European perspective on health economic policies," Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE), vol. 4(S), pages 35-43, June.
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    Keywords

    indirect mortality; side-effects; health system; behavioral distortions; financial sustainability; behavioral economic insights;
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    JEL classification:

    • D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • P36 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty

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