| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge international studies in health economics ; 1 |
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Routledge international studies in health economics ; 1
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The individual's own decisions for his or her health; Investments in prevention: health economics and healthy people; An exploratory study on the demand for health, lifetime income, and imperfect financial markets; Health, genuine uncertainty, and information; Rationality, nicotine dependence, and adjustment costs; The demand for health and health investments in Sweden 1980/81, 1988/89, and 1996/97; The determinants of health in Sweden |
| Summary |
This book poses the important question of whether economic theory can be developed to explain why people engage in activities that are obviously a danger to their long-term health |
| Notes |
"A selection of papers from the 19th Arne Ryde Symposium -- Individual Decisions on Health -- held on 27-28 August 1999 at the Lund University"--Preface |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Medical economics.
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Public health -- Economic aspects
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Patient satisfaction.
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Health attitudes.
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Economics, Medical
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Patient Satisfaction
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Attitude to Health
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Models, Economic
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Patient Satisfaction -- economics
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Primary Prevention -- economics
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Public Health -- economics
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MEDICAL -- Administration.
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MEDICAL -- Practice Management & Reimbursement.
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Health attitudes
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Medical economics
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Patient satisfaction
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Public health -- Economic aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lindgren, Björn, 1942-
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Arne Ryde Symposium (19th : 1999 : Lund, Sweden)
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| ISBN |
0203219074 |
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9780203219072 |
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9780203295236 |
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0203295234 |
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9786610069088 |
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6610069085 |
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