Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Greve, Jane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The standard economic model for the demand for health care predicts that unhealthy behaviour such as being overweight … serious diseases. In this paper, we investigate whether overweight or obese individuals demand more medical care than normal … in the impact of being overweight and obese relative to being normal weight on the demand for primary physician care …