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 …

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 …

The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most … discussion of the concept and definition of equity. The empirical sections cover the literature on equity in health care … financing (progressivity and horizontal equity of health care financing arrangements), equity in health care delivery …

This paper explores univariate health inequality in India using a representative sample of pre-school age children. I … decomposing health inequality, while providing some interesting empirical findings on health inequality. The results suggest that … Kerala, where health of children is relatively equally distributed. In addition, I compare the health inequality results to …

Various panel models were presented to resolve the ranking of global health care systems according to efficiency … be by regressing the health output on various explanatory variables through a combination of the fixed effects spatial … effects ; production of health ; efficiency measurement ; heterogeneity ; spatial effects ; spatial autocorrelation …

We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of … for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley …

We develop an empirical approach to analyse, measure and decompose Inequality of Opportunity (IOp) in health, based on …