Health and economic growth : findings and policy implications /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: López i Casasnovas, Guillem, 1955-, Rivera, Berta, Currais, Luis
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Health, human capital, and economic growth : a Schumpeterian perspective
  • Health as a principal determinant of economic growth
  • Health's contribution to economic growth in an environment of partially endogenous technical progress
  • On the health-poverty trap
  • Human development traps and economic growth
  • Health, education, and economic development
  • Nutrition, malnutrition, and economic growth
  • On epidemiologic and economic transitions : a historical view
  • Economic growth, health, and longevity in the very long term : facts and mechanisms
  • Productive benefits of health : evidence from low-income countries
  • Individual returns to health in Brazil : a quantile regression analysis
  • The economic cost of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa : reassessment
  • Profits and people : on the incentives of business to get involved in the fight against AIDS