BACKGROUND Despite improving trends, countries in Europe continue to face public-health challenges. This study investigated the priorities of stakeholders for research to meet these challenges. METHODS Public-health research includes population-level and health-system research, but not clinical or biomedical research. The study drew on data from three surveys undertaken through collaboration ...

This paper re-examines the relation between the predictability of health care spending and incentives due to adverse selection. Within an explicit model of health plan decisions about service levels, we show that predictability (how well spending on certain services can be anticipated), predictiveness (how well the predicted levels of certain services contemporaneously co-vary with total health...

T WAS inevitable that Congress's deregulatory right hand would eventually challenge what its left hand had been doing for years to the health-care industry-gradually tightening the government's regulatory grip. The first evidence of the challenge was a series of amendments, adopted last October, to the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974. These amendments significantl...

Its time was slow in coming, but the idea of deregulation of the health services industry must now be taken seriously. Although the option of letting market forces allocate resources to and within the health care industry has had academic support in the health policy debate for at least ten years,1 until very recently in policy circles there was a near consensus that the fundamental choice to r...