Economic Consequences of Health Status: A Review of the Evidence

Amar A Hamoudi and Jeffrey D. Sachs

No 30A, CID Working Papers from Center for International Development at Harvard University

Abstract: The correlation between health and economic performance is extremely robust across communities and over time. Many factors exogenous to income play an important role in determining health status, including a number of geographical, environmental, and evolutionary factors. This suggests the existence of simultaneous impacts of health on wealth and wealth on health. Potential health impacts on national economic performance are explored, and some important unanswered questions are identified.

Keywords: health; economic growth; human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 N3 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-12
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