The paper addresses the issue of dynamic relationships between environment, health and growth. Its aim is to show that … variables . The hypothesis is that the state of the “natural†environment at first affects negatively health; later on its … improvement, due to sanitation and health infrastructures, possible because of income growth, leads to a better health, followed …

Since the early seventies up to the late eighties the total health expenses, as to the GDP (Gross domestic product), of … the European Community countries increased then grew steady or decreased. In Spain, the public health expenses as to the … GDP have notably increased, redoubling from the early sixties up to the end of the eighties. The Spanish health model …