Economic Aspects of HealthVictor R. Fuchs 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Determinants of Health | 13 |
Prenatal Medical Care and Infant Mortality | 15 |
The Behavior of Mothers as Inputs to Child Health The Determinants of Birth Weight Gestation and Rate of Fetal Growth | 53 |
Time Preference and Health An Exploratory Study | 93 |
Healthiness Education and Marital Status | 121 |
Consequences of Ill Health | 141 |
The Status of Health in Demand Estimation or Beyond Excellent Good Fair and Poor | 143 |
Employment Earnings and Psychiatric Diagnosis | 203 |
Childrens Health Problems Implications for Parental Labor Supply and Earnings | 221 |
Health and Public Policy | 253 |
The Choice of Health Policies with Heterogeneous Populations | 255 |
Medical Care Medical Insurance and Survival Probability The True Cost of Living | 299 |
List of Contributors | 325 |
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