Английская Википедия:Anne A. Scitovsky

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Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox scientist Anne Aickelin Scitovsky[1] (April 17, 1915 – January 16, 2012) was an American health economist. She was associated with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation for most of her career and was a member of the National Academy of Medicine.[2]

Biography

Scitovsky was born in Ludwigshafen, Germany, on April 17, 1915, and emigrated to the United States when she was 15 with her family.[3] She earned her bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1937 and master's degree from Columbia University in 1941.[4] During World War II, she worked at the Social Security Administration with Selma Mushkin, an early pioneer in the field of health economics. During the 1950s and 60s, she was a homemaker and spent time raising her daughter.

In 1963, Scitovsky was invited to join the Palo Alto Medical Foundation to develop a program on health economics. She remained with the institute for the next 30 years.[3] Her research has focused on the changing medical costs of the elderly and people with aids, allowing her to estimate the impact of the changes in technology on medical costs.[5] She also published studies showing that demand for healthcare is influenced by what people have to pay for it long before the RAND Corporation launched its health insurance study.[6]

In 1979, Scitovsky was appointed by Jimmy Carter as one of the 11 members of the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research.[7]

In 1980, Scitovsky was elected a member of the Institute Of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.[8]

Personal life

Scitovsky was married to economist Tibor Scitovsky.[9] She died on January 16, 2012, in California.[3]

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