General introduction: Health and care: management, social determinants, professional consequences.

Summary Shortly after a special issue already devoted to this theme in 2012, the present issue of Economics and Statistics returns to the issue of health. It brings together a selection of articles from the 35 Journées des économistes de la santé français (JESF) held at the Université Paris-Est Créteil in December 2013. These days regularly result in the publication of a special issue devoted to health in a peer-reviewed journal. After the Revue Économique and, on two occasions, the journal Économie Publique, it is the turn of Économie et Statistique to host these proceedings. The fact that this subject has been taken up again at such short notice is obviously due to its importance, both socially and fiscally, and we will come back to this in a first step. But the precedent for the journal is not limited to this special issue of 2012: the theme of "health" has always had a regular and important presence. After an overview of the data available to shed light on this theme, we will detail how each of the articles in this issue drew on this mass of data, whether or not they fall within the strict domain of official statistics, and what messages could be drawn from them.