The demand for health
Subtitle: a theoretical and empirical investigation
By: Michael Grossman
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780231179010; 9780231179003
Subjects: Medical care; Medical economics
Description: 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 body of health economics literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A stock approach to the demand for health; title: The shadow price of health; title: The pure consumption model; title: An empirical formulation of the model; title: Empirical results: the norc sample; title: Joint production and the mortality data.