Koszegi Botond
Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 549 Evans Hall #3880, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
J Health Econ. 2003 Nov;22(6):1073-84. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2003.06.002.
Economic models of patient decision-making emphasize the costs of getting medical attention and the improved physical health that results from it. This note builds a model of patient decision-making when fears or anxiety about the future-captured as beliefs about next period's state of health-also enter the patient's utility function. Anxiety can lead the patient to avoid doctor's visits or other easily available information about her health. However, this avoidance cannot take any form: she will never avoid the doctor with small problems, and under regularity conditions she will never go to a bad doctor to limit the information received.
患者决策的经济模型强调了寻求医疗护理的成本以及由此带来的身体健康改善。本笔记构建了一个患者决策模型，其中对未来的恐惧或焦虑（表现为对下一期健康状况的信念）也会进入患者的效用函数。焦虑可能导致患者避免就医或回避其他容易获取的关于自身健康的信息。然而，这种回避不能采取任何形式：她永远不会因小问题而不去看医生，并且在常规条件下，她也永远不会为了限制所获得的信息而去看庸医。
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