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In this paper we investigate (1) the measurement of health status for both adults and children) (2) the importance of health status measures in demand analysis for medical care) and (3) attitudinal measures toward health care and their role in demand for medical care. Finally we develop a structural model of demand for medical care) incorporating a number of health status measures as indicators of a comprehensive) onedimensional health status measure. The model also includes a productiondemand relationship which specifies the unobservable health status measure as a function of socioeconomic household and individual characteristics. We find that the choice of health measure in demand analysis should get more attention than is usually the case in the literature, for there are differences in the results of other exogenous variables in response to health status measures. Inclusion of a large set of measures as indicators in a structural model is one way (partially) to deal with this problem. ---------------------
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