Health production

Health is largely automatic or autoproductive, but history shows that it is also largely produced and requires the input of parental roles and quasi-parental roles such as doctoring and healthcare; which includes folk medicine and Medicine; but also includes risk-aversion and self protection (these both under ‘safety’).
Def: Production Function: Is the maximum output that can be produced out of a given combination of inputs. Health depends on a number of factors, some of which can be influenced by the individual himself. Hence, health can be produced. Health is also a consumption good because it enters in the utility function of the individuals. Utility increases in Health 
Health lasts for more than one period. Health (H) is a durable good that can be produced by the individual. One of the obvious inputs into this production if Health Care. 
See the dominating theoretical model of individual health-related behavior: the demand-for-health model (the Grossman model, or the health-production model).
See more generally: Health processing.
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