Format:
X, 264 S.
,
graph. Darst.
ISBN:
0674707389
Content:
Like other dangerous but pleasurable activities, such as downhill skiing and mountain climbing, engaging in unprotected sex implicitly involves the weighing of costs and benefits. Recognizing that the transmission of the AIDS virus is a consequence of personal choices - often rational and informed - to engage in risky conduct, the authors employ the tools of economic analysis to reassess the orthodox approach to AIDS by public health specialists
Content:
Standard predictions of the spread of AIDS, the authors argue, are questionable because they ignore rational behavioral responses to the risk of infection. For the same reason, customary recommended public health measures, such as extensive testing for the AIDS virus, not only may be ineffective in controlling the spread of the disease but may actually cause it to spread more rapidly
Content:
The authors examine regulatory measures and proposals such as mandatory testing, criminal punishments, and immigration controls, as well as the subsidization of AIDS education and medical research, the social and fiscal costs of AIDS, the political economy of the government's response, and the interrelation of AIDS and fertility risk
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
USA
;
Aids
;
Prävention
;
Gesundheitspolitik
;
USA
;
Aids
;
Gesundheitsökonomie
;
Aids
;
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Posner, Richard A. 1939-
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