Dervaux, Benoît; Eeckhoudt, Louis - In: Revue économique 55 (2004) 5, pp. 849-856
Prevention is an important topics both in economics and in public health. However the definitions used in each of these two fields do not coincide. In this paper, by using an intertemporal approach of prevention we show that the two approaches can be reconcilied.Classification JEL : D1 ; D8 ; I10.