Good health is a determinant of economic growth and a component of the well-being of the population. This chapter … health policy making in low-income countries. The models presented could help address questions such as: How can the health … of the poor be improved, and what are the economic consequences of better health? What policies would improve intra …

This paper provides a closed-form solution for the health capital model of health demand. The results are exploited in … model, the pure consumption model and a combination of both types of models. Given the plausible assumptions that (i) health … declines with age and that (ii) the health capital stock at death is lower than the health capital stock needed for eternal …

We present a generalized solution to Grossman's model of health capital (1972), relaxing the widely used assumption … that individuals can adjust their health stock instantaneously to an "optimalʺ level without adjustment costs. The Grossman … model then predicts the existence of a health threshold above which individuals do not demand medical care. Our generalized …

This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying Grossman model. Using wave of China Health and … Nutrition Survey in 2000, we find that education has important positive effect on health, and cost of health care services has … important determinant of health. The body weight is also important, but unlike finding in developed countries, under …

The principal objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of credit constraints on health care utilizations … and health outcomes. This issue has important policy implications, particularly in the rural areas of developing countries …, where access to health insurance is very limited. Bosnia- Herzegovina Living Standard Measurement Study Survey 2001 data has …

This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying the Grossman model. Using a wave of China Health and … Nutrition Survey in 2000, we find that education has an important positive effect on health, and cost of health care services … that region is an important determinant of health. The body weight is also important, but unlike the finding in developed …

maternal health. Our analysis is based on administrative data from Austria. We exploit idiosyncratic daily variation in the …

effectively by the computer game market. Accessible games and games for health comprise this underdeveloped niche. Research …

The authors present a generalized solution to Grossman’s model of health capital (1972), relaxing the widely used … assumption that individuals can adjust their health stock instantaneously to an “optimal” level without adjustment costs. The … Grossman model then predicts the existence of a health threshold above which individuals do not demand medical care. Their …

Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health … care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our purposes the number of quality adjusted life years that a … synonymous with reducing inequalities in health, we also consider the much richer variety of concepts employed by philosophers …