Economic theories of health inequality across the life course

Titus J. Galama; Hans van Kippersluis

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Economic theories of health inequality across the life course

Titus J. Galama^*, Hans van Kippersluis

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This chapter will explore what economic theory can offer in terms of improving our understanding of the potential causes of health inequalities over the life course. We use the model by Galama and Van Kippersluis (2019), which is based on the seminal health-capital theory of Grossman (1972), to discuss important insights relevant for health inequality research. We additionally discuss some of the most important sources of critique of the model and sketch directions of how the theory could be extended to do justice to the recent empirical literature refuting some of the theoretical assumptions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Health Inequalities Across the Life Course
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing
Chapter	4
Pages	46-58
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781800888166
ISBN (Print)	9781800888159
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800888166.00010
Publication status	Published - 14 Apr 2023

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