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09, 2022;31 (9): 1807-1822.

The demand for health turns 50: Reflections.

Michael Grossman
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  1. Michael Grossman: City University of New York Graduate Center, National Bureau of Economic Research, and Institute of Labor Economics, New York, New York, USA. ORCID
PMID: 35801541 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4563

Abstract

The year 2022 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of my demand for health model in "On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health," Journal of Political Economy 80(2): 223-255, and in The Demands for Health: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation, NBER Occasional Paper 119 New York: Columbia University Press for the NBER. To mark that occasion, this editorial focuses on the history of the model and its impacts on the field of health economics.

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field impacts health demand model

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Economics, Medical
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Humans
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