health economists look towards health care sector as a market whereby there is a distinct demand and supply phenomenon exists. dearth of regulation of the doctors' practices lead to inappropriate and unjustifiable demand for health care among the patients. in developing and under-developed countries, this adverse practice may push a poor family into a vicious circle of poverty and illness, espe...

Inappropriate request for health care services which are considered to be unnecessary for the patients has long been addressed by several writers. The hypothesis supplier induced demand refers to the induced demand initiated by the supplier who acts in his own economic self-interest rather than patient best interest. The purpose of the present qualitative study was to explore about induced dema...

Inappropriate request for health care services which are considered to be unnecessary for the patients has long been addressed by several writers. The hypothesis supplier induced demand refers to the induced demand initiated by the supplier who acts in his own economic self-interest rather than patient best interest. The purpose of the present qualitative study was to explore about induced dema...

This study examines the relationship between supply of primary physicians and consumer satisfaction with access to, and quality of, primary physician services in Norway. The purpose is to throw light on a long-standing controversy in the literature on supplier inducement (SID): the interpretation of the positive association between physician density and per capita utilization of health services...

Consider a two-level inventory system consisting of one supplier and one retailer. The retailer faces a Poisson demand with a known rate and applies base stock (one-for-one ordering) policy. That is, his inventory position is set to a pre-determined level, so the demand pattern is transferred exactly to the supplier. The supplier has an inventory system and a service unit with exponentially dis...

We address the presence of supplier-induced demand in the Belgian primary care market, which is characterized by a …xed fee system and a high density of General Practitioners (GP). Using a unique dataset on the number of visits of all Belgian GPs, we …rst investigate whether we can …nd evidence of demand inducement by Belgian GPs. Novel to this literature is that we furthermore investigate whic...