Globalization and Health: Impact Pathways and Recent Evidence

Giovanni Cornia, Stefano Rosignoli and Luca Tiberti

No RP2008-74, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The last two decades of the twentieth century recorded a slowdown in health gains and widespread increases in health inequality across and within countries. The paper explores the causes of such trends on the basis of five main mortality models. To do so, it regresses IMR/LEB on 15 determinants of health. The results underscore the negative health effects of the trends observed between 1980-2000, such as rising inequality, greater income volatility, declining health expenditure, increasing migration and so on.

Keywords: Simulation methods (Economics); Equality and inequality; Globalization; Health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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