Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the effects of health on economic growth. The micro … economic return on health. We reconcile these two strands of literature by showing that the point estimate of the macroeconomic … effect of health is quantitatively close to that found by aggregating the microeconomic effects, when carefully specifying …

addiction benefit because they can switch to a less harmful substance, but opponents argue that this could encourage abstainers … to begin using the harm reduction method or even the original addictive good. This paper builds on theories of addiction …. The three key factors determining whether the introduction of a harm reduction method reduces or worsens health harms are …

positively on the level of survival from other causes. This means that a specific public health intervention has benefits other … World Health Organization …

In many health domains, we are concerned that observed links - for example, between "healthy" behaviors and good … vary over time. When a particular health behavior becomes more recommended, the take-up of the behavior may be larger among … people with other positive health behaviors. Such changes in selection would make it even more difficult to learn about …

In this survey of recent research in health economics, I concentrate on studies that have appeared since 1971 or are in … are covered: (1) demand for adults' health and medical care; (2) effects of health on labor supply and wage rates; (3 …) demand for children's health and medical care and (4) selected topics pertaining to the supply side of the medical care …

We develop an economic framework for valuing improvements to health and life expectancy, based on individuals … by about $1.5 trillion per year since 1970. The potential gains from future innovations in health care are also extremely …

policy analysis, such as spurious reductions in measured health system performance as screening expands …

much poorer health conditions compared to the initially poor countries that later took off, and (ii) improving health … construct a dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous health and knowledge accumulation, allowing health … that, although low among all countries in this study, the U.S. economy still faced a health-related institutional barrier …