Giffen good behavior
Selection effect
Entitlement effect
Sunk cost
Selection bias
1、 Indian people don’t believe how will it work
Western medicine is the term used to describe the treatment of medical conditions with medications, by doctors, nurses and other conventional healthcare providers who employ methods developed according to Western medical and scientific traditions. Other names for Western medicine include traditional medicine or allopathic medicine.
2、 Indian’s different culture
One story from my friend who was just came back from Yuannan, a 偏僻 mountain region, with CERS. She told me
a. a Tibet grandmother get epilepsy. After went to hospital, nothing got better, then she went to see the Tibet temple, Buddha. Who told her that she had crop too many trees , so she need to retreat the nature-to plant more trees. After 3 month , she was healed
b. Another epilepsy patient in ethnic Lisu, who was told that his soul was lost, and need to be call back. The wizard dance around the patien for 3days , squashing worms and
3、These technologies have very high benefits. So if people do not want to pay for them, is it because they think there is something bad with these technologies (the “culture” argument)?
4、low demand: Two difficulties with preventive care: – It is difficult to learn what works – Benefits are in the future, and the cost is now.
5. Most diseases are self-limiting: they get better after being worst.
• If you start from the theory that a shot is needed, and someone is willing to give you that shot, then you will usually feel better, and attribute it to the shot.
• It will be harder to attribute it to nothing... tendency to overmedicate is always present (in rich and poor countries), and needs to be regulated away.
6. in the book the poor economics, there is a case that a doctor in Delhi who had no