POUVOURVILLE, Gérard

Les instruments de régulation publique dans le secteur de la santé - Paris : IIAP, juil./sept. 1987

The State acts on national health by regulating the health care system. It regulations and procedures are based on a theoretical model of reality. Analyzing two instruments of policy, conventional tariffs for medical services and the medical equipment allocation plan, reveals that the authorities have very limited capacity to deal with the two-tier complexity of health care, i.e. it is difficult to established a relationship between means and results, and French care is marked by institutional pluralism