Past research on the health workforce can be structured into three perspectives - "health workforce planning" (1960 … through 1970s); "the health worker as economic actor" (1980s through 1990s); and "the health worker as necessary resource …" (1990s through 2000s). During the first phase, shortages of health workers in developed countries triggered the development …

Past research on the health workforce can be structured into three perspectives - "health workforce planning" (1960 … through 1970s); "the health worker as economic actor" (1980s through 1990s); and "the health worker as necessary resource …" (1990s through 2000s). During the first phase, shortages of health workers in developed countries triggered the development …

of institutional efforts is economic growth, social development, poverty alleviation, or improved health, these domains … linkages; and (b) to assess the implications for the World Health Organization (WHO) of the current findings derived from this …The consequences of health and health policy for economic development are potentially of major importance to …

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …