Working paper n° 33
Effort or Circumstances: Does the Correlation Matter for Inequality of Opportunity in Health?
This paper proposes a method to quantify the contribution of inequalities of opportunities and inequalities due to differences in effort to be in good health to overall health inequality...

QES n° 147 An Exploratory Evaluation of Multidisciplinary Primary Care Group Practices in Franche-Comté and Bourgogne. .
The creation of maisons de santé pluridisciplinaires, grouping together first-contact medical and paramedical private practitioners providing a multidisciplinary healthcare service, is expanding throughout France...

QES n° 148 Pathways to Retirement in Europe: Individual Determinants and the Role of Social Protection.
In Europe, the pathways to retirement are determined by individual factors such as age, gender, education level and health status, and contextual factors such as family and professional environments...

QES n° 149 Is there a Relationship between Volume of Activity and Quality of Care in French Hospitals?
Concentration of certain procedures in high-volume hospitals is increasingly being presented as a means of improving the quality of care. However, until now no study has verified the link between volume of activity and quality of the care in France...

Document de travail / Working paper n° 30
Monitoring Health Inequalities in France: A Short Tool for Routine Health Survey to Account for LifeLong Adverse Experiences.
Conventional health surveys focus on current health and social context but rarely address past experiences of hardship or exclusion. However, recent research shows how such experiences contribute to health status and social inequalities...

Working paper n° 29
This study aims to assess the efficacy and the cost of a French team work experiment between nurses and GPs for the managing of type 2 diabetes patients. Our study was based on a case control study design in which we compare the evolution of process (standard follow-up procedures) and final outcomes (glycemic control), and the evolution of cost.

International Network Health Policy and Reform
Three new reports on recent health care reforms in France have been provided by Irdes researchers for the International Network Policy and Reform: Encouraging direct access to OTC drugs in France - The French pandemic influenza plan - Update on new regional health governance.

QES n° 146 Immigrants' use of office-based healthcare in France.
Immigrants have a lower rate of access to office-based medical practices (whether general practitioners or specialists) than the rest of the French population. This can be explained more by immigrants’ disadvantaged social conditions than differences in age, gender and health status between the two populations...

Working paper n° 28
What are the Motivations of Pathways to Retirement in Europe: Individual, Familial, Professional Situation or Social Protection Systems?
The aim of this research is to identify the determinants of pathways to retirement in Europe and, by measuring the influence or combined influence of individual, contextual and institutional domains on labor force participation, to better understand inter-country variations in the employment rates of older citizens...

QES n° 145 Fifty Years of Deinstitutionalisation Policy of Psychiatric Services in France: Persistent Inequalities in Terms of Resources and Organisation Between Psychiatric Sectors.
Fifty years after the mental health policy of deinstitutionalisation introduced psychiatric sectors in France, these elementary state-running psychiatric-caredelivering units are marked by considerable geographical disparities in the human and financial resources allocated...

QES n° 144 Estimating French GPs Weekly Working Hours by Activity - A summary of available data.
GPs thus declare working on average between 52 and 60 hours per week distributed in the following manner: 61% of their weekly working time is devoted to the provision of medical care in private practice activity, 19% to the provision of care outside private practice activity and 20% in activities other than those directly involving medical care...

QES n° 143 Cost-of-Illness Studies: a Five-Country Methodological Comparison - Australia, Canada, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
In all five countries studied, health care expenditure (hospitals, physicians, dentists and prescribed medicines) is predominated by three major diagnostic categories: cardiovascular diseases, digestive diseases and mental disorders...

Internet yearly update for OECD Health Data 2009 is available , exclusively in the Online version of the database.

QES n° 138 Asthma in France in 2006: Prevalence and Control of Symptoms.
In 2006, 6.25 million people in metropolitan France reported having had asthma at least once during their lifetime, and among these, 4.15 million, i.e. 6.7% of the population, continued to live with it...

English/French Glossary in Health Economics

Working paper n° 27
Are Health Problems Systemic? Politics of Access and Choice under Beveridge and Bismarck Systems.
Industrialised countries face similar challenges for improving the performance of their health system. Nevertheless the nature and intensity of the reforms required are largely determined by each country's basic social security model...

QES n° 139 Geographic Context and Population’s Health Status: from the CUA Effect to Neighbourhood Effects.
A previous Irdes study indicated a poorer health status among residents of critical urban areas* (CUA*). In line with this finding, this new study shows the impact of neighbourhood characteristics on inhabitants' health status...

QES n° 142 Self-assessed health of individuals aged 55 and over in France and Québec: differences and similarities.
A comparison of the self-assessed health status of the French and Québécois population aged 55 and over living at home reveals both significant differences and similarities...

First announcement 2010 ENRGHI - 15th Emerging New Researchers in the Geography of Health and Impairment - 10-11 june 2010.

QES n° 134 Referral to specialist consultations in France in 2006 and changes since the 2004 Health Insurance reform
The August 2004 Health Insurance reform seemed to have had substantial impacts on the patients' access to and use of specialist care...

QES n° 140 Hospital at home (HAH), a structured, individual care plan for all patients
This study examines the patient profiles and medical treatments administered in 2006 to define the place of HAH in patients'care pathway. In 2006, over two million days of hospitalization at home (HAH) were realised in metropolitan France.

QES n° 126 Complementary health cover changes at retirement time - Analysis of retirees' switching behaviour
On retirement, many complementary health insurance contract holders change provider: this is indeed the case for 51% of compulsory group contract holders, 39% of voluntary group contract holders and 23% of individual contract holders...

First announcement for the 2010 IRDES Workshop on Applied Health Economics and Policy Evaluation 24-26 june 2010.