Health and economic growth findings and policy implications / edited by Guillem López-Casasnovas, Berta Rivera, and Luis Currais.
| Other author | López i Casasnovas, Guillem, 1955- |
| Other author | Rivera, Berta. |
| Other author | Currais, Luis. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, |
| Description | x, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | EconomÃa y salud. English |
| Contents | Introduction : The role health plays in economic growth / Guillem López-Casasnovas, Berta Rivera, and Luis Currais -- Health, human capital, and economic growth : a Schumpeterian perspective / Peter Howitt -- Health as a principal determinant of economic growth / Adriaan van Zon and Joan Muysken -- Health's contribution to economic growth in an environment of partially endogenous technical progress / Dean T. Jamison, Lawrence J. Lau, and Jia Wang -- On the health-poverty trap / Xavier Sala-i-Martín -- Human development traps and economic growth / David Mayer-Foulkes -- Health, education, and economic development / Edward Miguel -- Nutrition, malnutrition, and economic growth / Harold Alderman, Jere R. Behrman, and John Hoddinott -- On epidemiologic and economic transitions : a historical view / Suchit Arora -- Economic growth, health, and longevity in the very long term : facts and mechanisms / Olivier F. Morand -- Productive benefits of health : evidence from low-income countries / T. Paul Schultz -- Individual returns to health in Brazil : a quantile regression analysis / Berta Rivera and Luis Currais -- The economic cost of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa : reassessment / Tomas J. Philipson and Rodrigo R. Soares -- Profits and people : on the incentives of business to get involved in the fight against AIDS / David Bloom and Jaypee Sevilla. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004062534 |
| ISBN | 0262122766 (alk. paper) |
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