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• Position: Cost-effectiveness of medical checkups as preventive medical care in Japan - Brief Article

Good health enhances market earnings by increasing the number of days that employees work and by increasing their nonmarket productivity in terms of time spent on household production. And, health checkups are one way to secure good health. Yamada, using sample data from Japan's 1995 Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions of the People on Health and Welfare, finds that a number of socioeconomic and demographic factors determine the demand for health checkups among workers aged 30 to 60. These factors include age, gender...