Differing types of medical prevention appeal to different individuals

Nicolas Bouckaert () and Erik Schokkaert
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Nicolas Bouckaert: Department of Economics, KULeuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium

No 2013038, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: We analyse participation in medical prevention with an expected utility model that is sufficiently rich to capture diverging features of different prevention procedures. We distinguish primary and secondary prevention (with one or two rounds) for both fatal or non-fatal diseases. Moreover, we introduce a flexible relationship between the specific disease for which the prevention procedure is set up and the general background health of the individual. We show how these various possibilities change the comparative statics of the prevention decision and we test the differential predictions with data from SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) about participation in mammography, dental caries screening and flu vaccination.

Keywords: screening; vaccination; expected utility; behavioral economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-07-23
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Working Paper: Differing types of medical prevention appeal to different individuals (2016)
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