Smith J P
RAND, Santa Monica, California, USA.
J Econ Perspect. 1999 Spring;13(2):144-66.
The first section of this paper documents the size of the association between health and one prominent economic status measure--household wealth. The next section deals with how health influences economic status by sketching out reasons why health may alter household savings (and eventually wealth) and then providing estimates of the empirical magnitude of these effects. The third section shifts attention to the other pathway--the links between economic status and health--and summarizes major controversies and evidence surrounding these issues.
本文的第一部分记录了健康与一项突出的经济状况衡量指标——家庭财富之间的关联程度。下一部分探讨健康如何影响经济状况,先概述健康可能改变家庭储蓄(并最终影响财富)的原因,然后给出这些影响的实证规模估计。第三部分将注意力转向另一条路径——经济状况与健康之间的联系——并总结围绕这些问题的主要争议和证据。