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health capital: a standalone construct

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Health economics

treating health as a durable stock of capital that depreciates with age and that people invest in through medical care and time.

In health economics, health capital refers to treating health as a durable stock of capital that depreciates with age and that people invest in through medical care and time. This meaning comes from Grossman (1972) in Journal of Political Economy.[1]

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References

Grossman, M. (1972). On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health. Journal of Political Economy, 80(2), 223-255. https://doi.org/10.1086/259880

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