The demand for health : a theoretical and empirical investigation /
A seminal work in health economics first published in 1972, Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health introduced a new theoretical model for determining the health status of the population. His work uniquely synthesized economic and public health knowledge and has catalyzed a vastly influential...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2017.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- TABLES
- FOREWORD TO THE 2017 EDITION
- FOREWORD TO THE 1972 EDITION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY
- 1. A STOCK APPROACH TO THE DEMAND FOR HEALTH
- 2. THE SHADOW PRICE OF HEALTH
- 3. THE PURE CONSUMPTION MODEL
- 4. AN EMPIRICAL FORMULATION OF THE MODEL
- 5. EMPIRICAL RESULTS: THE NORC SAMPLE
- 6. JOINT PRODUCTION AND THE MORTALITY DATA
- APPENDIX A. UTILITY MAXIMIZATIONS
- APPENDIX B. DERIVATION OF INVESTMENT MODEL FORMULAS
- APPENDIX C. DERIVATION OF CONSUMPTION MODEL FORMULAS
- APPENDIX D. STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MODEL
- APPENDIX E. ADDITIONAL EMPIRICAL RESULTS
- APPENDIX F. SOURCES AND METHODS: MORTALITY ANALYSIS
- NOTES
- INDEX.