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Discounting health: The issue of subsistence and care in an undeveloped country
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- Messing, Simon D (Author)
Title
Discounting health: The issue of subsistence and care in an undeveloped country
Abstract
The concept "discounting health" is proposed as a heuristic model for analysis of differing perceptions concerning "cost-benefit", as these relate to systems of health care. This procedure became necessary during analysis of data gathered in rural Ethiopia to measure the effectiveness of new Health Centers. Ethnological research accompanying the quantitative study of health attitudes found that "subsistence anxiety" dominated all other concerns of the majority in the rural areas. The landless peasant sharecropper and his divorced wife represent the most prevalent social problem in Ethiopia. Holistic solutions should include some form of social security and safe wells, so that the population can stop "discounting health". © 1973.
Publication
Social Science & Medicine
Date
1973
Volume
7
Issue
11
Pages
911-916
Journal Abbr
Soc. Sci. Med.
Citation Key
pop00135
ISSN
0277-9536
Language
English
Extra
6 citations (Crossref) [2023-10-31]
Citation Key Alias: lens.org/049-649-364-861-026
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Citation
Messing, S. D. (1973). Discounting health: The issue of subsistence and care in an undeveloped country. Social Science & Medicine, 7(11), 911–916. https://doi.org/10.1016/0037-7856(73)90113-3
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