In this survey of recent research in health economics, I concentrate on studies that have appeared since 1971 or are in … are covered: (1) demand for adults' health and medical care; (2) effects of health on labor supply and wage rates; (3 …) demand for children's health and medical care and (4) selected topics pertaining to the supply side of the medical care …

This paper investigates the health of white adolescents, focusing particularly on the roles of family background and … preventive medical care. This emphasis is motivated in part by our desire to study adolescent health in the context of the nature … on adolescent health and second, that preventive care is an important vehicle for this impact in the case of dental …

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the Community Health Center (CHC) on health levels in the U.S. Using … infant mortality as the underlying health indicator, a time series of large counties as the data set, and multivariate … reduction in the excess mortality rate of black babies has been dentfied as a goal of public health policy for a number of years …

An assessment of the efficiency of Federally funded community health centers (CHCs) in delivering ambulatory medical …

This paper contains a detailed treatment of the human capital model of the demand for health. Theoretical predictions … studies causality between years of formal schooling completed and good health is surveyed. The model views health as a durable … account for the gap between health as an output and medical care as one of many inputs into its production. In this framework …

In this paper, I summarize the results of empirical studies in the areas of schooling and health, public programs and … neutral with respect to the question of whether the government should pursue policies to improve the health of its citizens …. But it calls attention to the consequences with respect to health of alternative decisions by policy makers …

The focus of this paper is on functional health status of children in the population. More specifically, we examine a … single aspect of functional health status -- intellectual development of children. In a multivariate context, we examine the … relationships between the health indexes and cognitive development of children from six to 11 years of age in Cycle II of the U …

This paper is an empirical exploration of the dynamic relationship between health and cognitive development in a … feedback both from health to cognitive development and from cognitive development to health, but the latter of these … health and cognitive development over the life cycle. The second finding suggests that nurture "matters" in cognitive …

In this paper we explore income and race differences in nine measures of the health of children aged 6 through 11. We … show that when health measures from mid-childhood are the subject of analysis, both income and race differences are much … less pronounced than they are in infant mortality and birth weight data. We do find differences in the health status of …

The objective of this paper is to define the relationship between a number of family characteristics and the health of … white children aged 6 to 11 years residing in those families. The partial effects of family income on health are1l and … seldom statistically significant. Indeed, some health problems -- high blood pressure, allergies, and tension -- are more …