GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF … REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO … ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES, ESPECIALLY FOR THE POOR IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES SUCH AS NIGERIA, THE …

in education, (ii) the production level depends on the education level, and (iii) the pollution ia directly prportional …

On average, infant mortality rates are lower in more industrialized nations, yet health and mortality worsened during …. At the same time, pollution from factories appears quite harmful to infants. The overall effect was slightly higher …

the informal manufacturing sector creates pollution, higher the use of informal sector product, higher is the pollution … created and higher the discrepancy between actual and permissible levels of pollution, so that the emission tax payable by the … formal sector is also higher. The efficiency of a representative worker is inversely related to the level of pollution. In …

empirical and theorical works. Today, Health Economics is faced with new requirements of society, i.e. better care at a … sustainable cost. Furthermore, since the problems linked with health care system and with the health status are more and more … connected with the economic sphere, a global approach of Health Economics proves necessary. Prior to the development of such an …

public sector interventions, notably reproductive health and immunization, supported by external assistance from the World …