Production of health & healthcare - The health production function
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What is the output of the health production function?
- H = h (healthcare, schooling, nutrition, prevention, safety, ...)
- Healthcare is one of the inputs of health
What questions do we need to ask to know about the contribution of healthcare to the population health? (2x)
- How to measure population's health?
- How to estimate the impact of health on healthcare?
What do we need to measure population's health?
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What are typical ways of measuring (population) health? (3x)
- Mortality / life expactency
- morbidity / disability
- Disability-adjusted life expectancy(DALE)
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