Determinants of Health [online] : An Economic Perspective / Michael Grossman

Frontmatter Contents Foreword Introduction and Acknowledgments

PART 1 : The Demand for health: theoretical underpinnings and empirical results Introduction to Part 1 1. On the concept of health capital and the demand for fealth 2. The human capital model Afterword to Part 1

PART 2 : The relationship between health and schooling Introduction to Part 2 3. The correlation between health and schooling 4. An exploration of the dynamic relationship between health and cognitive development in adolescence 5. Parental education and child health 6. Women’s education: harbinger of another spring? Afterword to Part 2

PART 3 : Determinants of infant health with special emphasis on public policies and programs Introduction to Part 3 7. Variations in infant mortality rates among counties of the United States 8. Determinants of neonatal mortality rates in the United States 9. Birth outcome production functions in the United States 10. Unobservables, pregnancy resolutions, and birth weight production functions in New York City 11. The impact of national health insurance on birth outcomes Afterword to Part 3

PART 4 : The economics of unhealthy behaviors Introduction to Part 4 12. The effects of government regulation on teenage smoking 13. Beer taxes, the legal drinking age, and youth motor vehicle fatalities 14. Effects of alcoholic beverage prices and legal drinking ages on youth alcohol 15. Rational addiction and the effect of price on consumption 16. An empirical analysis of cigarette addiction 17. An empirical analysis of alcohol addiction 18. The demand for cocaine by young adults 19. An economic analysis of adult obesity 20. Fast-Food restaurant advertising on television and its influence on childhood obesity 21. Food prices and body fatness among youths Afterword to Part 4 Reflections Index

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