Economic Aspects of Health
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2008
346 pages
978-0-226-26794-4 (ISBN)
Description
Unlike earlier work in medical economics, which has focused on medical care, these ten papers stress the production and consequences of health itself. They reveal a serious concern with real-world health problems in their investigation of such subjects as infant mortality, life expectancy, morbidity, and disability. These papers are unusual, as well, in bringing to bear on these problems new and powerful theoretical and statistical tools. They draw on, and in some cases are, original sources for new bodies of data. As such, Economic Aspects of Health comprises a useful blend of relevance and rigor.
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Victor R. Fuchs
Economic Aspects of Health
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04/1982
University of Chicago Press
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Content
- Intro
- Economic Aspects of Health
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One. Determinants of Health
- 1. Prenatal Medical Care and Infant Mortality
- 2. The Behavior of Mothers as Inputs to Child Health: The Determinants of Birth Weight, Gestation, and Rate of Fetal Growth '
- 3. Time Preference and Health: An Exploratory Study
- 4. Healthiness, Education, and Marital Status
- Part Two. Consequences of Ill Health
- 5. The Status of Health in Demand Estimation
- or, Beyond Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor
- 6. Physical Disabilities and Post-secondary Educational Choices
- 7. Employment, Earnings, and Psychiatric Diagnosis
- 8. Children's Health Problems: Implications for Parental Labor Supply and Earnings
- Part Three. Health and Public Policy
- 9. The Choice of Health Policies with Heterogeneous Populations
- 10. Medical Care, Medical Insurance, and Survival Probability: The True Cost of Living
- List of Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
