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050 4 _aRA410.53
_b.N49 1981
100 1 _aNewhouse, Joseph P.
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe demand for medical care services :
_ba retrospect and prospect /
_cJoseph P. Newhouse.
264 1 _aSanta Monica, CA :
_bRAND,
_c1981.
300 _avii, 31 pages ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"March 1981."
500 _a"This report was written as a survey paper for the World Congress on Health Economics, held at Leiden, the Netherlands, September 9-11, 1980"--Preface.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 25-31).
520 _aSurveys the literature on demand for medical care services and conjectures where the literature may go next. Although focus is on the response of demand to changes in cost sharing arrangements, several other determinants of demand are treated. Previous studies have used four sources of data: premium or claims information, natural experiments, comparison of demand of individuals with different insurance policies, and designed experiments. The advantages and drawbacks of using each of these sources are examined. Several frontiers of demand analysis are also discussed: specification of price, income, and health status variables; specification of the stochastic term and use of appropriate estimators; specification of the dependent variable; and the norms argument. The author concludes that whereas both conceptual and empirical knowledge are now much improved, the theory of both price and utilization at the market level is in need of further study.
530 _aAlso available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aMedical care
_xEvaluation.
650 0 _aMedical care
_xUtilization
_zUnited States.
650 2 _aHealth Services Research.
710 2 _aRand Corporation.
710 1 _aUnited States.
_bDepartment of Health and Human Services.
711 2 _aWorld Congress on Health Economics.
856 4 1 _yOnline Access
_uhttp://www.rand.org/publications/R/R2691/
999 _c597570
_d597570