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 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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Bloom, David E., Canning, David
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2008
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 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/28036
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