Health and Economic Growth: Findings and Policy Implications, vol 1

Edited by Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas (), Berta Rivera and Luis Currais ()

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Abstract: Although human capital is a clear determinant of economic growth, it is only recently that health's role in this process has become a focus of serious academic inquiry. By marrying the separate fields of health economics and macroeconomic 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.

Keywords: health economics; macroeconomic growth theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 O15 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0-262-62212-2
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