Topics of the Committee on Allocation and Distribution

• Prioritization and rationing of health services
• Regional distribution aspects of health care
• Risk selection in the health care system
• Health inequality
• Physician behavior
• Distributional effects of health care financing
• Distribution criteria for health goods

Methods

• Normative discussion
• Theoretical models
• Empirical analyses
• Experimental studies

Examples of individual questions

• Analysis of the social opinion-forming process on the topic of "prioritization in the health care system"
• Influence of professional ethical norms on physician behavior
• Experimental evidence on the choice of health insurance contracts
• Experimental evidence on competition between physicians
• Risk selection in statutory health insurance
• Distributional aspects of cost-benefit analyses