CH 8 - Health and nutrition

Question 1

Investment in _______ is far lower than in _________ in developing countries

Answer 1

Preventative, curative

Question 2

What are private benefits from investment in health?

Answer 2

NPV of increased earnings due to higher productivity, longer lifetime and higher quality of material life

Question 3

What are private costs of investment in health?

Answer 3

Out of pocket spending, abstaining from enjoyable yet damaging habits and the time spent visiting doctors

Question 4

What affects the demand for health?

Answer 4

Externalities from improved health, imperfect info, credit constraints, poor practices, behavioral biases

Question 5

What are some ways of overcoming the low take up of preventative health services?

Answer 5

Subsidies, immunization camps, offering incentives, educating people to reduce info asymmetries, free distribution

Question 6

How do you improve performance in health provision?

Answer 6

Health worker incentives, community based monitoring

Question 7

Describe the unitary model of decision making

Answer 7

We think of a household as a unit of analysis and ignore intra-household allocation of resources

Question 8

Describe the non unitary model of the household

Answer 8

Views distribution of resources as a bargaining process, whereby the share of each member depends on their bargaining power. Earners have higher bargaining power