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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Benham, Alexandra (Contribuidor), Benham, Lee (Contribuidor), Bergstrom, Theodore C. (Contribuidor), Fuchs, Victor R. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Grossman, Michael (Contribuidor), Harris, Jeffrey E. (Contribuidor), Manning, Willard G. (Contribuidor), Newhouse, Joseph P. (Contribuidor), Rosen, Sherwin (Contribuidor), Rosenzweig, Mark R. (Contribuidor), Salkever, David S. (Contribuidor), Schultz, T. Paul (Contribuidor), Shakotko, Robert A. (Contribuidor), Shepard, Donald S. (Contribuidor), Taubman, Paul (Contribuidor), Ware, John E. (Contribuidor), Zeckhauser, Richard J. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2008]
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
Temas:
Health status indicators > Congresses.
Health status indicators.
Health.
Medical economics > Congresses.
Medical economics.
Social sciences.
Socioeconomic Factors.
MEDICAL / General.
economy, finance, financial, money, monetary, healthcare, wellness, medicine, medical, doctor, production, real world, study, investigation, academic, scholarly, research, mortality, life expectancy, morbidity, disability, essay collection, anthology, theoretical, statistics, statistical, data, socioeconomic, prenatal, infant, behavior, children, fetal, growth, diagnosis, psychiatric, interdisciplinary.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART 1. 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 2. Consequences of I11 Health
  • 5. The Status of Health in Demand Estimation; or, Beyond Excellent, Good, Fair, and 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 3. 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

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