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Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health logoLink to Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
. 1986 Mar;40(1):1–11. doi: 10.1136/jech.40.1.1

The demand for health: theory and applications.

A Wagstaff
PMCID: PMC1052481  PMID: 3711765

Abstract

The concern of this paper lies with the economic theory of the "demand for health". It develops a conceptual apparatus for analysing the interaction of socioeconomic determinants of health and indicates how this can be used to shed light on a variety of topical policy issues such as socioeconomic inequalities in health and the design of prevention policies. It is written with the aim of making what has hitherto been a mathematically sophisticated literature accessible to the non-economist.

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