. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing … and their macroeconomic repercussions. Fourth, we discuss the health toll and economic impacts of five infectious diseases …: HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza, and COVID-19. Although major epidemics and pandemics can take an enormous …

; maximum humidity; precipitation; precipitation standard deviation; malaria cases; health facilities; hospital beds; health … preferable. Health facilities, per capita GDP, the interaction of temperature and precipitation, the interaction of precipitation …. Hospital beds and health workers are significant and negatively related to malaria cases while per capita health expenditure …

", that is I hypothesize that exposure to malaria in utero or during childhood has persistent effects on health. Periods under … consider malaria as a measure of "bad geography" and propose some evidence showing that it was a major determinant of the … health of individuals (as measured by the height of conscripts) and its disparities between individuals and regions in Italy …

This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is … to malaria, with forest cover having no discernible effect on other diseases with a disease ecology different from that … of malaria. Back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate that the morbidity-related malaria-reducing local benefits of …