Chapter 4: Demand and Supply for Health and Health Care Services Flashcards
Health is considered as a personalized capital good, which may grow through investment in the person’s own health,
Grossman Model of Intertemporal Consumption Choice
Quantity or amount of goods or services consumers are willing and able to buy/purchase at a given price, place and at a given period of time.
Demand
Determine the quantity of demand or the factor that influence how much of a certain good and service people are willing and able to buy.
Determinants of Demand
Two categories of the Determinants of Demand
Price Factor and Non-Price Factor
This reflects that as the price of a certain good or service increases, the demand for this good or service decreases or vice versa.
Price Factor:
Price of the Good or Service
What are the non-price factors
Consumers income changes in Consumers' taste and preferecnes the size of population prices of related goods and services consumers' expectation of future prices
Goods or services for which quantity demand at every price increases when income rises
Normal Goods/Services
Goods or services for which quantity demand falls when income rises
Inferior Goods/Services
Goods that go or are consumed generally together
Complementary Goods
Goods or services that can be used in place of other goods or services
Substitute Goods
The relationship between the quantity of a good or service DEMANDED and the price of that good or service
Demand Schedule
Shows graphically the relationship between the quantity of a good or service demanded and its corresponding price with other variables held constant
Demand Curve
What are the four types of goods and services
Normal
Inferior
Substitution
Complementary
Property of the Demand curve due to inverse relation between the price and the quantity demanded
The law of downward sloping demand
Presenting the relationship between the price of quantity demanded through a mathematical expression
Demand Function
Qd
quantity demanded
P
Price of goods and services
Y
Income of Consumers
Pr
Price of related commodities
Ps
Population size
Demand Function
Qd = f (P, Y, Pr, Ps)
States that as a price of a particular product increases, quantity demanded of that product decreases, and as price of a particular product decreases, quantity demanded of that product increases, if other factors remain constant
Law of Demand
A latin word which means other determinants remain constant
Ceteris Paribus