skip to content
Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.

Health and economic growth : findings and policy implications
ClosePreview this item

Health and economic growth : findings and policy implications

Author: Guillem López i Casasnovas; Berta Rivera; Luis Currais
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Edition/Format: Book : English
Rating:

Retrieving ratings and reviews data...  

 

Find a copy in the library

Retrieving... Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Guillem López i Casasnovas; Berta Rivera; Luis Currais
ISBN: 0262122766 9780262122764 9780262622127 0262622122
OCLC Number: 57069101
Description: x, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Other Titles: Economía y salud.
Responsibility: edited by Guillem López-Casasnovas, Berta Rivera, and Luis Currais.
More information:

Reviews

Retrieving WorldCat reviews...
Retrieving EMRO reviews...
Retrieving weRead reviews...
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...
Retrieving Amazon reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.