Econometrics of Health Care

Econometrics of Health Care — which we have sometimes called 'medico­ metrics' — is a field in full expansion. The reasons are numerous: our knowledge of quantitative relations in the field of health econometrics is far from being perfect, a large number of analytical difficulties — combining medical (latent factors, e. g. ) and economic facts (spatial behaviour, e. g. ) are faced by the research worker, medical and pharmaceutical techniques change rapidly, medical costs rocket more than pr...