0000000000923615
AUTHOR
Mehdi Ammi
Les incitations "explicites" à la prévention peuvent-elles être efficaces en médecine libérale ?
disponible sur : http://www.ces-asso.org/docs/JESF_2007/ammi.pdf
Economic analysis of prevention : prevention supply, incentives and preferences in french private medical practice
The traditional approach of the economics of prevention is built around a demand-side logic. This provides fruitful insights about consumer behaviour and public policies related to prevention, but it has nothing to say about the supply side of prevention. The present thesis aims at developing the economics of prevention from the supply-side, in particular the production of services by ambulatory physicians, and to study the incentives to prevention and the preferences of these medical care producers. An institutional analysis enables to underline the obstacles limiting the supply of prevention by French doctors, and shows that it is necessary to develop incentives mechanisms to increase thi…