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Integrating Health and Law Services: Insights from Stuart Birks' Professional Development Day

This document outlines the discussions from Stuart Birks' Teachers’ Professional Development Day held in Palmerston North on 27 November 2009. It examines the intersection of health and law as services, highlighting theoretical frameworks of firms and markets. The presentation identifies generic approaches while acknowledging that specialist areas possess unique characteristics that are often overlooked in standard economic models that fail to consider the significance of time and space in these fields.

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Integrating Health and Law Services: Insights from Stuart Birks' Professional Development Day

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  1. Health and law as services

    Stuart Birks Teachers’ Professional Development Day Palmerston North, 27 November 2009
  2. Firms and markets in theory Generic approaches Limited number of characteristics Specialist areas identify their own peculiarities Standard economics ignores time and space Land economics focuses on location
  3. heart Health and law Some alternative characteristics Infrequent purchasers Limited information about the services Principal-agent issues (“non-verifiability”)
  4. alternative characteristics At initial purchase, unclear about total cost or end result Benefits may be unclear after purchase i.e. credence goods, cf search and experience goods
  5. …and some more Government does not have full control over costs (capping? waiting lists? figurative and literal queues) Production involves several suppliers independently appointed and funded (privately and publicly)
  6. …and some specific to law Participation may be on instructions of 2 or more parties who may be in conflict Purchase decision can be decided by one, then required by the other May have choice over own appointments, but not on the others involved
  7. …and some specific to law (2) Limited scope to insure Limited redress in “legal misadventure” Outcome can depend on process (e.g. importance of time) Issues may be ongoing, law gives one-off decision
  8. …and some specific to law (3) Law as policy – government has limited control on outcomes “Shadow of the law” Law changes can affect outcomes from past decisions Limited monitoring or formal economic evaluation of the services

  9. Health and law as services

    Stuart Birks Teachers’ Professional Development Day Palmerston North, 27 November 2009
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