Population Health and Economic Growth

Population Health and Economic Growth

Health is a direct source of human welfare and also an instrument for raising income levels. The authors discuss a number of mechanisms through which health can affect income, focusing on worker productivity, children's education, savings and...

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Main Authors:	Bloom, David E., Canning, David
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	ABORTION ACCESS TO FAMILY PLANNING ADULT HEALTH ADULT MORTALITY AGING AIDS EPIDEMIC AIDS ORPHANS ANAEMIA ASCARIASIS BABY BABY BOOM BLINDNESS BRAIN BULLETIN BURDEN OF DISEASE BURDEN OF MALARIA CHILD HEALTH CHILD MORTALITY CHILD MORTALITY RATES CHILD SURVIVAL CHILDBEARING CHRONIC DISEASE CITIZENS CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES COMPLICATIONS CONSEQUENCES OF POPULATION DEATH RATES DEATHS DEBT DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION DEPENDENCY RATIO DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEWORMING DISABILITY DISEASE BURDEN DISEASE CONTROL DRUG ADMINISTRATION EARLY CHILDHOOD EARLY MARRIAGE ECLAMPSIA ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS ECONOMIC POLICIES ECONOMIC POLICY EDUCATION OF CHILDREN EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EFFECTS OF POPULATION ELDERLY ENDEMIC AREAS EPIDEMIC EQUILIBRIUM EXTERNALITIES FACT SHEET FALL IN MORTALITY FAMILIES FAMILY PLANNING FERTILITY FERTILITY BEHAVIOR FERTILITY TRANSITION FERTILITY TRANSITIONS FETUS FEWER CHILDREN FISCAL POLICIES FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FUTURE GENERATIONS GIRLS IN SCHOOL GLOBAL AGENDA GLOBAL HEALTH GLOBAL POPULATION GOVERNMENT AGENCIES GREENHOUSE GASES HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE COSTS HEALTH CONDITIONS HEALTH ECONOMICS HEALTH EFFECTS HEALTH EXPENDITURE HEALTH IMPACT HEALTH INDICATORS HEALTH INTERVENTIONS HEALTH INVESTMENTS HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH POLICIES HEALTH POPULATION HEALTH STATUS HELMINTHIC INFECTIONS HEMORRHAGE HIGH DEATH RATES HIV HIV/AIDS HOOKWORM HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD POVERTY HUMAN BIOLOGY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN RESOURCES HUMAN WELFARE HUNGER HYGIENE ILL HEALTH ILLNESS ILLNESSES IMPACT OF AIDS IMPAIRMENTS IMPROVEMENTS IN MORTALITY INCOME INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFANT MORTALITY RATE INFANT MORTALITY RATES INFANTS INFECTION INFLAMMATION INSURANCE INTERVENTION INTESTINAL WORMS INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION INVESTMENTS IN EDUCATION IODINE DEFICIENCY IRON IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA ISOLATION JOURNAL OF MEDICINE LABOR MARKET LABOR SUPPLY LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE LARGE POPULATIONS LEGAL STATUS LIFE EXPECTANCY LIVING STANDARDS LONGEVITY LOW FERTILITY LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS MALARIA MALARIA TRANSMISSION MALNOURISHED CHILDREN MALNUTRITION MEASLES MEDICAL CARE MEDICAL EXPENSES MEDICAL FACILITIES MEDICAL RECORDS MEDICAL RESEARCH MENSTRUATION MENTAL RETARDATION MIGRATION MORBIDITY MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY MORTALITY MORTALITY DECLINE MORTALITY RATE MORTALITY REDUCTION MOTHER NATIONAL LEVEL NATURAL DEATH NATURAL RESOURCES NUMBER OF BIRTHS NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUMBER OF GIRLS NUTRITION PANDEMIC PARASITIC DISEASES PARASITOLOGY PATIENTS PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POOR HEALTH POOR NUTRITION POPULATION AGE STRUCTURE POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT POPULATION DECLINES POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION DIVISION POPULATION EXPLOSION POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION PRESSURE POPULATION STUDIES PRACTITIONERS PREGNANCY PREMATURE DEATH PREVALENCE PRIMARY SCHOOLING PROBABILITY PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POPULATION RISK OF DEATH RURAL COMMUNITIES SAFE WATER SANITATION SCARCE RESOURCES SCHISTOSOMIASIS SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL CHILDREN SOCIAL AFFAIRS SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS SOCIAL NORMS SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS SUBSISTENCE FARMING TREATMENT TRICHURIASIS TROPICAL DISEASES TROPICAL MEDICINE TUBERCULOSIS UNSAFE ABORTION URBANIZATION VACCINATION VICTIMS VULNERABILITY WASTE WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING AGE WORKERS WORKFORCE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION WORLD POPULATION YELLOW FEVER YOUNG ADULT YOUNG PEOPLE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/599491468151504321/Population-health-and-economic-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28036

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Summary:	Health is a direct source of human welfare and also an instrument for raising income levels. The authors discuss a number of mechanisms through which health can affect income, focusing on worker productivity, children's education, savings and investment, and demographic structure. As well as the impact of current illness, health may have large effects on prospective life spans and life cycle behavior. Studies suggest there may be a large effect of health and nutrition in uteri, and in the first few years of life, on physical and cognitive development and economic success as an adult. Macroeconomic evidence for an effect on growth is mixed, with evidence of a large effect in some studies. However, there is a possibility that gains from health may be outweighed by the effect of increased survival on population growth, until a fertility transition occurs. The low cost of some health interventions that have large-scale effects on population health makes health investments a promising policy tool for growth in developing countries. In addition, higher priority could be given to tackling widespread 'neglected' diseases that is, diseases with low mortality burdens that are not priorities from a pure health perspective, but that do have substantial effects on productivity.

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