Question

7. What is "flat of the curve" medicine? Illustrate it on the health status graph. 8. In what s pure consumption? ense is health care an investment for an individual? For society? In what sense is it 9. How have public health measures improved health status in the United States? Can such efforts be invested successfully in developing nations? Would they be better uses of limited resources than expanding direct medical services to individuals? 10. Assess your own health status, both short-run and long-run. Consider your present health, your family history, your socio-economic status, educational aspirations, your maintenance, improvement and prevention efforts, etc. Assess your demand for health as both a consumption and an investment good. Are you on the right path for a long, healthy, productive life?

Answer 1

7. Flat of the curve medicine refers to the phenomenon where health care consumption continues to rise while health outcomes remain the same. The US practices flat of the curve medicine since national health expenditure have been steadily increasing with no significant health improvements.

8. People want health, they demand medical care inputs to produce it. Health is not passively produced from markets.It is produced by combining time with purchased medical inputs. Health care is a capital good as it does not depreciate instantly. As an investment, because it increases the number of healthy days to work and to earn income.

Assuming that responsibility for health rests either with individuals or society, it follows that society should also help to promote health and prevent disease. Most of the discussion in bioethics and health policy has focused on society's obligation to provide access to healthcare. Undoubtedly, ensuring access is an important social responsibility, but there are many other ways in which societies in which societies can promote health such through sanitation, pollution control, food and drug safety, health education, disease surveillance, urban planning and occupational health.