Infectious Disease Externalities

In the presence of infectious diseases, people's actions have consequences for others but not ones that they take into account in making their choices. These externalities arise for individuals' decisions about both prevention and therapy and condition the design of government intervention...

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Autor principal: Gersovitz, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7149787/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-375678-7.00404-1
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description In the presence of infectious diseases, people's actions have consequences for others but not ones that they take into account in making their choices. These externalities arise for individuals' decisions about both prevention and therapy and condition the design of government interventions. Subsidies are one form of intervention but may be constrained by circumstances to be less than optimal.
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spelling pubmed-71497872020-04-13 Infectious Disease Externalities Gersovitz, M. Encyclopedia of Health Economics Article In the presence of infectious diseases, people's actions have consequences for others but not ones that they take into account in making their choices. These externalities arise for individuals' decisions about both prevention and therapy and condition the design of government interventions. Subsidies are one form of intervention but may be constrained by circumstances to be less than optimal. 2014 2014-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7149787/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-375678-7.00404-1 Text en Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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