title: Optimal choice on prevention and cure: a new economic analysis.
abstract: This paper studies choices on prevention and cure in a context where an agent bears a health risk. In this framework we first analyze interdependence between the optimal levels of prevention and cure. Second, we study the effects on optimal choices of a change in the cost of one of the two instruments and we examine substitutability between them. Finally we present findings about the effects of a change either in the seriousness of the possible disease or in the efficiency of the medical treatment.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Economia, Universitá degli Studi di Parma, via Kennedy 6, 43125, Parma, Italy, mario.menegatti@unipr.it.
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Menegatti
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018803:Models, Economic; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000191:economics*; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000191:economics; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior