Women, Health, and Development

Lenore Manderson

Chapter 11 in Health and Development, 2009, pp 183-196 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Health and economic development are interdependent. Health outcomes improve with development, infant mortality and maternal mortality rates drop, and life expectancy increases. Increased health and increased life expectancy lead to increased productivity and increased consumption, leading (depending on the development theorist) to increased wealth (World Bank 1993). Increased wealth allows for increases in health expenditure at individual, household and government levels; concurrently, the proportionate expenditure on emergency health measures is lower relative to expenditure on and investment in health promotion and prevention of illness. And so on.

Keywords: Intimate Partner Violence; Sexual Violence; Lymphatic Filariasis; Tropical Disease; Female Genital Mutilation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230581982_11

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