Different Periods Of Chinese Farmers' Capital Needs Analysis

The health capital is one of human capital and refers to human's physical capacities, energy, the state of health and the lifetime. It affects directly the efficiency and the returns about the human capital investment. Grossman thought the health capital can increase the consumer's utility, because health increases the number of days available to participate in market and non-market activities. It depreciates the same as other capitals. Health is determined by many factors among which medical care is important one. Medical care demand is satisfied by medical services. These factors include: environment (such as life or work environment), education, diet and lifestyle. The health is seen as a wealth for not only individual but also the nation.Many overseas scholars have conducted the research on the health capital, after Grossman many scholars continue further researches based on Grossman model of demand for health care. Thanks to these models and the researches, I can study theChinese farmer health capital.In our country the farmer is the weakest social class, therefore their health attracts continuously nationwide attention. This thesis under the farmer rationality supposition analyzes farmer's demand for health care between different times, the planning economy and the market economy. According to the analysis I draw a conclusion that because of the medical expense paid by farmer self, their health demand depends on the financial ability and the medical care price.Owing to the medical and health care belongs to public goods which produce externality, nation's function should be strengthened both to increase total capacities of farmer health capital and to realize whole social justice and the efficiency. The nation can take following measures to improve farmer health capital: controlling the soaring medicine price, increasing the countryside public health investment, enhancing the health education, expanding the coverage of medical care safeguard, provide the special poor with medical service rescue, adopting the third party purchaser pay-off and so on.