A relatively new approach to measure health status is to use non-parametric frontier methods, based on index and … production theory. The purpose of this study is to construct and investigate some properties of a non-parametric health status … index. The index is based on a non-radial efficiency measure obtained from a non-parametric health characteristics frontier …

The importance of the physician-patient relationship for the health care market is beyond controversy. Recent work … that physician consultation and health relevant behavior are not stochastically independent. In the recursive bivariate … probit model, patient's health relevant behavior has a significant influence on the probability of a physician visit. This …