The demand for health turns 50: Reflections

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 Demand 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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This article introduces the historical background of the author's demand for health model and its impacts on the field of health economics.