Economic policy in health care : Sickness absence and pharmaceutical costs

Economic policy in health care : Sickness absence and pharmaceutical costs

This thesis consists of a summary and four papers. The first two concerns health care and sickness absence, and the last two pharmaceutical costs and prices. Paper [I] presents an economic federation model which resembles the situation in, for example, Sweden. In the model the state governments prov...

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Main Author: Granlund, David
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi 2007
Subjects:
vertical fiscal externalities
sickness absence
sickness benefits
health care expenditure
fixed budgets
pharmaceuticals
cost containment
dynamic panel data models
endogeneity
propensity score matching
Economics
Nationalekonomi
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