Description
Individual Decisions for Health
Routledge International Studies in Health Economics Series
Coordinator: Lindgren Bjorn
Language: EnglishSubjects for Individual Decisions for Health:
Keywords
True Health State; marginal; eA eB; utility; Uncertainty Aversion; capital; Taxable Net Wealth; function; Data Set; nash; Nash Equilibrium; equilibrium; Capitation Fee; complementary; Marginal Returns; agent; Nondistribution Constraint; cost; Health Capital; participation; Dummy Variable; Complementary Agent; Health Investment; Switching Costs; Imperfect Financial Markets; Income Effects; Mutual Firms; National Health Accounts; Higher Treatment Intensity; Diagnostic Risk; Stock Firms; Exogenous Information; Grossman Model; Low Initial Risk; Stated Preference Design
Publication date: 04-2014
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 08-2002
272 p. · 17.8x25.4 cm · Hardback
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Although economics is a relative newcomer to research into the determinants of good health, its significance should not be under-estimated. This book poses the important question of whether economic theory can be developed to explain why people engage in activities that are obviously a danger to their long-term health.
In looking first at the individual's own decisions that affect his or her health, and then at the impact of other agent's decisions for the individual's health, the authors provide an exhaustive account of the important issues to be faced to ensure the best future for public health care. Contributors include such experts as Peter Zweifel, Donald S. Kenkel and Mark Pauly. Of great interest to advanced students of health economics, this book will also be extremely useful to students, academics and professionals involved in the sphere of public health.
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