Health and economic growth : findings and policy implications / edited by Guillem López-Casasnovas, Berta Rivera, and Luis Currais.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

López i Casasnovas, Guillem, 1955-

Rivera, Berta.

Currais, Luis.

Standardized Title:

Economía y salud. English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical economics.

Medical policy.

Economic development.

Macroeconomics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 385 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Leading international researchers offer theoretical and empirical microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives on the ways a population's health status affects a country's economic growth.

Contents:

Introduction: The Role Health Plays in Economic Growth / Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas, Berta Rivera, Luis Currais 1

I Health, Human Capital, and Economic Growth 17

1 Health, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: A Schumpeterian Perspective / Peter Howitt 19

2 Health as a Principal Determinant of Economic Growth / Adriaan van Zon, Joan Muysken 41

3 Health's Contribution to Economic Growth in an Environment of Partially Endogenous Technical Progress / Dean T. Jamison, Lawrence J. Lau, Jia Wang 67

II Macroeconomics, Development, and Health 93

4 On the Health-Poverty Trap / Xavier Sala-i-Martin 95

5 Human Development Traps and Economic Growth / David Mayer-Foulkes 115

6 Health, Education, and Economic Development / Edward Miguel 143

7 Nutrition, Malnutrition, and Economic Growth / Harold Alderman, Jere R. Behrman, John Hoddinott 169

III Human Capital, Health, and Demography 195

8 On Epidemiologic and Economic Transitions: A Historical View / Suchit Arora 197

9 Economic Growth, Health, and Longevity in the Very Long Term: Facts and Mechanisms / Olivier F. Morand 239

IV Productivity, Labor Markets, and Health 255

10 Productive Benefits of Health: Evidence from Low-Income Countries / T. Paul Schultz 257

11 Individual Returns to Health in Brazil: A Quantile Regression Analysis / Berta Rivera, Luis Currais 287

V Quantity of Life and the Welfare Costs of AIDS 313

12 The Economic Cost of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Reassessment / Tomas J. Philipson, Rodrigo R. Soares 315

13 Profits and People: On the Incentives of Business to Get Involved in the Fight against AIDS / David Bloom, Jaypee Sevilla 339.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262290586

0262290588

1282100661

9781282100664

OCLC:

605704595

Publisher Number:

9786612100666

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.