Although human capital is a clear determinant of economic growth, it is only recently that health's role in this process has become a focus of serious academic inquiry. By marrying the separate fields of health economics and macroeconomic growth theory, this groundbreaking book explores the...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the role of health status in productivity. In order to check the existence of reverse causation suggested by previous studies the Hausman test was carried out and different sets of instruments were used as exogenous determinants of health expenditure....

The impact of economic factors on drug-related harms is difficult to predict, as different transmission mechanisms could operate simultaneously. Furthermore, this impact could be lagged in time and depend on the intensity of the economic shock. This study applies a timedynamic linear analysis,...