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On the Social Rationality of Health Policies

In: The Economics of Health and Medical Care

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  • Jean-Pierre Dupuy

    (Centre de Recherche sur le Bien-Être)

Abstract

I. Measuring the output of health activities: (1) Introduction. (2) Health expenditure appears to make only a slight impact on overall technical health indicators. (3) Logical criteria systems other than the maximization of an overall technical health indicator. (4) The implicit rationality of health activities and their non-technical outputs. (5) From technical and non-technical outputs to a rational health policy. II. The Consumption of Medicines in a System of Private Medical Practice: (1) The facts and the questions they raise. (2) The functions of medicines in the doctor-patient relationship. (3) Psychological obsolescence and the outmoding of medicines. (4) The question of over consumption of medicines.

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  • Jean-Pierre Dupuy, 1974. "On the Social Rationality of Health Policies," International Economic Association Series, in: Mark Perlman (ed.), The Economics of Health and Medical Care, chapter 24, pages 481-509, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-63660-0_24
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-63660-0_24
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