There is a Growing Demand for Health Care
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Demand an Explanation in a Nutshell
There are several ways in which health care is different from other production-related inputs. In contrast to clothing, automobiles, and other consumer products, it has no purpose other than to promote health. In contrast to other inputs, at least some of the demand for health care is erratic because it is conditioned on disease, and the amount spent on it can be astronomical when compared to household income and wealth. In this chapter, a demand model for healthcare is presented, with healthcare serving as an input in the creation of health. Other factors being equal, everything that raises the demand for health should raise the demand for health care.
For instance, increased earnings should raise demand for health and healthcare since they make sick days more desirable. The situation in which the time cost of medical care exceeds its projected value would be an exception. Medical Care Demand The specific production role of health has an impact on the demand for healthcare as well. Production processes are always built with a certain technology in mind. The use of medical inputs in the creation of health has expanded as a result of technological advancements in healthcare. Additionally, they have raised the bar for what level of health is feasible, raising the demand for health itself. The need for health care is then increased as a result.
Education's impact on the need for healthcare is less obvious. If education increases a person's ability to produce health, then a greater understanding of the need of healthy eating and illness prevention will lower the amount of medical treatment needed to produce a given stock of health. Education may also raise consumer demand for health care in general. If the productivity boost from education on health-related inputs outweighs the change in demand for health, the better educated will demand more health but less health care. The uncertainty of the relationship between education and the need for healthcare is demonstrated by empirical studies. It has been discovered that the impact of age on the need for healthcare varies depending on the kind of healthcare needed. Age, however, becomes less important when health status is taken into account when estimating the demand for medical care. It seems that the demand for health care is increased less by age itself than by the decline in health status that comes with it. Future chapters will go into greater detail regarding the impact of insurance on the demand for medical treatment. It largely affects the cost of healthcare, which is a change in the direction of the healthcare demand curve.
It is crucial to evaluate the concept of need while analyzing the demand for healthcare, taking into account both the traits of health policy and a person's use of healthcare. Most often, attitudes regarding the purposes of health services are dominated by need rather than demand. Most people will likely respond that they visit the doctor as needed if you ask them what drives their need for medical treatment. The simple economics response, though, would be that people do it because they want to, which sounds strange given that nobody desires health care for its own sake. Need, though, is more intricate than that. Need suggests that access to healthcare is necessary because it will help with health issues.
People know very little about health issues and the treatments that can fix them. Contrarily, the standard assumption in economics is that consumers are the greatest arbiters of their own desires when making demands. Demand is just the capacity and willingness to pay for healthcare. Therefore, needs and demands can be seen as two quite distinct ways of looking at things, but when combined, they provide helpful insights. There could be two extreme positions. There may occasionally be a demand when there is none. People may be incorrect about either their health status or the likelihood of changing it, depending on their outlook. In actuality, the more significant scenario is the possibility of unmet needs in the event that health services simply cater to demand. Lack of information will contribute to some of the unmet requirements. Unmet requirements could also be caused by variables that affect a person's ability to obtain services, such as supply- and demand-side constraints on healthcare, like cost and income levels.
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