This paper revisits the relationship between health and growth in light of modern endogenous growth theory. We propose a unified framework that encompasses the growth effects of both, the accumulation and the level of health. Based on cross-country regressions where we instrument for both...

This paper examines the variation across countries and evolution over time of life expectancy. Using historical data going back to the beginning of the 20th century several basic facts about the relationship between national income and life expectancy are established. The paper shows that even...

Este documento estima la reducción de la esperanza de vida al nacer y la pérdida de años de vida productivos, debido a las principales causas de muertes en Colombia. Asimismo, se calculó la probabilidad de muerte por causas y cuando se alcanzan ciertos grupos de edad. Estos ejercicios fueron...

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar el equilibrio financiero del re?gimen contributivo de aseguramiento en salud, para el peri?odo 2010-2050, a partir de la construccio?n de un modelo que simula el comportamiento de afiliacio?n y financiacio?n de este re?gimen, e incorporando elementos de...

Health workforce planning aims to achieve a proper balance between the supply and demand for different categories of health workers, in both the short and longer-term. Workforce planning in the health sector is particularly important, given the time and cost involved in training new doctors and...

In a recent paper, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) argue that the large increases in population health witnessed in the 20th century may have lowered income levels. We argue that this result depends crucially on their assumption that initial health and income do not affect subsequent economic...

This paper presents an overview of microsimulation as a method to evaluate health and health care policies and interventions. After presenting a brief survey of microsimulation models and applications we describe the main features of the approach and how these are implemented in practice. We pay...