Journal article
The distribution of health and income: a theoretical framework
Abstract
A general framework is developed to analyse variations in the distribution of population health, where individual health is modelled as a function of income, conditional upon the level of another factor such as health-related behaviour. Results are derived for the response of the level of average health in a population and the degree of health inequality to alternative health promotion policies and equiproportionate income growth. Qualitative …
Authors
Contoyannis P; Forster M
Journal
Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 605–622
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
October 1999
DOI
10.1016/s0167-6296(99)00002-8
ISSN
0167-6296