The demand for health: theory and applications.
The concern of this paper lies with the economic theory of the "demand for health". It develops a conceptual apparatus for analysing the interaction of socioeconomic determinants of health and indicates how this can be used to shed light on a variety of topical policy issues such as socioeconomic inequalities in health and the design of prevention policies. It is written with the aim of making what has hitherto been a mathematically sophisticated literature accessible to the non-economist.
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D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000191:economics*; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D006113:United Kingdom