Health and economic growth : findings and policy implications /

"While human capital is a clear determinant of economic growth, only recently has health's role in this process become a focus of serious academic inquiry. By marrying the separate fields of health economics and growth theory, this groundbreaking book explores the explicit mechanisms by wh...

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Otros Autores: López i Casasnovas, Guillem, 1955-, Rivera, Berta, Currais, Luis
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Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005.
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245 0 0 |a Health and economic growth :  |b findings and policy implications /  |c edited by Guillem López-Casasnovas, Berta Rivera, and Luis Currais. 
260 |a Cambridge, Mass. :  |b MIT Press,  |c c2005. 
300 |a x, 385 p. :  |b il. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. 
505 0 |a Preface / Guillem López-Casasnovas -- Introduction : The role health plays in economic growth / Guillem López-Casasnovas, Berta Rivera, and Luis Currais -- Health, human capital, and economic growth : a Schumpeterian perspective / Peter Howitt -- Health as a principal determinant of economic growth / Adriaan van Zon and Joan Muysken -- Health's contribution to economic growth in an environment of partially endogenous technical progress / Dean T. Jamison, Lawrence J. Lau, and Jia Wang -- On the health-poverty trap / Xavier Sala-i-Martín -- Human development traps and economic growth / David Mayer-Foulkes -- Health, education, and economic development / Edward Miguel -- Nutrition, malnutrition, and economic growth / Harold Alderman, Jere R. Behrman, and John Hoddinott -- On epidemiologic and economic transitions : a historical view / Suchit Arora -- Economic growth, health, and longevity in the very long term : facts and mechanisms / Olivier F. Morand -- Productive benefits of health : evidence from low-income countries / T. Paul Schultz -- Individual returns to health in Brazil : a quantile regression analysis / Berta Rivera and Luis Currais -- The economic cost of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa : reassessment / Tomas J. Philipson and Rodrigo R. Soares -- Profits and people : on the incentives of business to get involved in the fight against AIDS / David Bloom and Jaypee Sevilla --Conclusion / Guillem López-Casasnovas, Berta Rivera, and Luis Currais. 
520 |a "While human capital is a clear determinant of economic growth, only recently has health's role in this process become a focus of serious academic inquiry. By marrying the separate fields of health economics and growth theory, this groundbreaking book explores the explicit mechanisms by which a population's individual and collective health status affects a nation's economic development and performance. International leaders from both fields have contributed original essays that employ theoretical and empirical perspectives on the relationship between health and economic growth, including the relevant interconnections with investment in education, family planning, and productivity. Each of the book's five sections deals with a different aspect of this dynamic. These include the channels through which health human capital generates both higher income and individual well-being; the impact of health on long-run development, economic growth, and poverty reduction; the link between human capital levels and fertility and mortality rates, with models that analyze demographic and epidemiological transitions; the quantitative effect of better health on labor productivity and wages; and, finally, the devastating effects of AIDS -in underdeveloped countries the most deadly, most economically adverse, and the surest barrier to growth- on individual well-being and populations, and the prospects for incentives for developing new treatments. A concluding chapter integrates the different microeconomic and macrodynamic analyses and draws some policy conclusions for future study." --Descripción del editor. 
650 0 |a Medical economics. 
650 0 |a Medical policy. 
650 0 |a Economic development. 
650 0 |a Macroeconomics. 
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650 7 |a Política médica.  |2 UDESA 
650 7 |a Desarrollo económico.  |2 UDESA 
650 7 |a Macroeconomía.  |2 UDESA 
700 1 |a López i Casasnovas, Guillem,  |d 1955- 
700 1 |a Rivera, Berta. 
700 1 |a Currais, Luis. 
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