Determinants of Health : An Economic Perspective / Michael Grossman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grossman, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health status indicators.

Health behavior--Economic aspects.

Health behavior.

Health behavior--Social aspects.

Public health--Social aspects.

Public health.

Public health--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (831 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This collection of Michael Grossman's most important papers adds essential background and depth to his work on economic determinants of public health. Each of the book's four sections includes an introduction that contextualizes the issues and addresses the larger stakes of his work. An afterword discusses the significance of Grossman's approach for subsequent research on health economics, as well as the work others have done to advance and extend his innovative perspective.Determinants of Health explains how the economic choices people make influence health and health behaviors. It begins with a section on the theoretical underpinnings and empirical results of Grossman's groundbreaking health economics model, first introduced in the 1970s, followed by essays on the relationship between health and schooling; determinants of infant health, with a special emphasis on public policies and programs; and the economics of unhealthy behaviors. Grossman treats health as a form of human capital. He shows that public policies and programs that determine the price and availability of key inputs have critical effects on outcomes ranging from birth weight and infant mortality to cigarette smoking, alcohol abuse, illegal drug use, and obesity. Grossman's approach has led to a major stream of literature in the field, sparking contributions by the world's leading health economists, including Joseph Newhouse, Jonathan Gruber, Amy Finkelstein, Michael Greenstone, and David Cutler. His clarity on the role that economics play in people's good and bad health choices is immensely valuable to the debate over how we legislate and spend on health.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction and Acknowledgments

PART 1. The Demand for Health: Theoretical Underpinnings and Empirical Results

Introduction to Part 1

1. On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health

2. The Human Capital Model

Afterword to Part 1

PART 2. The Relationship between Health and Schooling

Introduction to Part 2

3. The Correlation between Health and Schooling

4. An Exploration of the Dynamic Relationship between Health and Cognitive Development in Adolescence

5. Parental Education and Child Health

6. Women's Education: Harbinger of Another Spring?

Afterword to Part 2

PART 3. Determinants of Infant Health with Special Emphasis on Public Policies and Programs

Introduction to Part 3

7. Variations in Infant Mortality Rates among Counties of the United States

8. Determinants of Neonatal Mortality Rates in the United States

9. Birth Outcome Production Functions in the United States

10. Unobservables, Pregnancy Resolutions, and Birth Weight Production Functions in New York City

11. The Impact of National Health Insurance on Birth Outcomes

Afterword to Part 3

PART 4. The Economics of Unhealthy Behaviors

Introduction to Part 4

12. The Effects of Government Regulation on Teenage Smoking

13. Beer Taxes, the Legal Drinking Age, and Youth Motor Vehicle Fatalities

14. Effects of Alcoholic Beverage Prices and Legal Drinking Ages on Youth Alcohol

15. Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption

16. An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction

17. An Empirical Analysis of Alcohol Addiction

18. The Demand for Cocaine by Young Adults

19. An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity

20. Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity

21. Food Prices and Body Fatness among Youths

Afterword to Part 4

Reflections

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

9780231544511

0231544510

OCLC:

1000395484