The world has enjoyed huge improvements in population health during the last half century. But major health problems … deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic arguments for public spending on health have buttressed governments …’ efforts to improve health. These efforts have now been further spurred by new economic arguments that better population health …

Regarding the connection between economic development and public health, the statistically evident correlation between … be identified, whose origins are in part inherent to the special structural characteristics of the market for health but … focus on the demand for health, this paper takes a holistic approach toward modeling the health market, in order to account …

We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan …. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the … measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application …

The global health security (GHS) Index assesses countries' level of preparedness to health risks. However, there is no … evidence on how and whether the efects of health systems building blocks and socioeconomic indicators on the level of … preparedness difer for low and high prepared countries. The aim of this study was to examine the contributions of health systems …

, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and … educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence the gaps in political attainment and health status. The effect of trade …

in the first 1000 days of life can falter depending on health endowments and investments. We investigate growth faltering … parental health investments, economic recouping, and foreign aid, which facilitate subsequent catch-up growth of children. We … discuss our findings and contributions within the literature on child health and disasters, which has largely been confined to …