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]
Anne A. Scitovsky | |
|---|---|
| Born | Anne Aickelin April 17, 1915 Ludwigshafen, Germany |
| Died | January 6, 2012 (aged 96) California |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Barnard College Columbia University |
| Spouse | Tibor Scitovsky (divorced) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Health economics |
| Institutions | Palo Alto Medical Foundation |
Biography
editScitovsky 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
editScitovsky was married to economist Tibor Scitovsky.[9] She died on January 16, 2012, in California.[3]
References
edit- ^ Mushkin, Selma J.; Small, Leila Nancy; Scitovsky, Anne A. (1946). Social Insurance Financing in Relation to Consumer Income and Expenditures. Federal Security Agency, Social Security Board, Bureau of Research and Statistics. hdl:2027/mdp.39015077748682. OCLC 572257000.[page needed][non-primary source needed]
- ^ Scitovsky, Anne A. (1994). "'The High Cost of Dying' Revisited". The Milbank Quarterly. 72 (4): 561–591. doi:10.2307/3350356. JSTOR 3350356. PMID 7997219.[non-primary source needed]
- ^ a b c "Anne Scitovsky Obituary". Legacy.com. San Francisco Chronicle. February 2012.
- ^ "Our Lab". Barnard Year of Science. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
- ^ Scitovsky, Anne A. (January 1988). "The Economic Impact of AIDS in the United States". Health Affairs. 7 (4): 32–45. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.7.4.32. PMID 3147234.[non-primary source needed]
- ^ Scitovsky, Anne A; Snyder, Nelda M (June 1972). "Effect of Coinsurance on Use of Physician Services" (PDF). Social Security Bulletin. 35 (6): 3–19. ProQuest 1310468517.[non-primary source needed]
- ^ "President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research Appointment of the Membership and Nomination of the Chairman". The American Presidency Project. July 18, 1979.
- ^ "Anne A. Scitovsky, M.A." National Academy of Medicine. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
- ^ Di Giovinazzo, Viviana (December 2022). "The cultural and aesthetic roots of The Joyless Economy". Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 44 (4): 556–578. doi:10.1017/S1053837221000493. S2CID 253528613.