A theoretical and empirical investigation of nutritional label use

Due in part to increasing diet-related health problems caused, among others, by obesity, nutritional labelling has been considered important, mainly because it can provide consumers with information that can be used to make informed and healthier food choices. Several studies have focused on the empirical perspective of nutritional label use. None of these studies, however, have focused on developing a theoretical economic model that would adequately describe nutritional label use based on a utility theoretic framework. We attempt to fill this void by developing a simple theoretical model of nutritional label use, incorporating the time a consumer spends reading labels as part of the food choice process. The demand equations of the model are then empirically tested. Results suggest the significant role of several variables that flow directly from the model which, to our knowledge, have not been used in any previous empirical work

Can incentives for prevention be efficient in French private medical practice? Les incitations à la prévention peuvent-elles être efficaces en médecine libérale?

The fee-for-service scheme is adapted to a physician-patient relation centred on curative care but it does not provide incentives for the physician to offer preventive care. However French decision-makers wish physicians to make prevention and a consultation dedicated to prevention (CSP) is now introduced. But the efficiency of this incentive mechanism is not insured. This study intends to develop efficiency criteria for incentives to prevention in French private medical practice. These criteria concern the form of incentives (amount, outcome indexation, length and frequency) and their context (individual or group practice, public health campaign, motivations). Our study focuses then on the CSP efficiency

Variations in activity and practice patterns: a French study for GPs

Medical activity, Practice profiles, General practitioner, Cluster analysis, Hypothesis test, I 11,