: health care, healthrelated behaviours and lifestyle, and medical knowledge. …

In this paper, the growth effect of health in Ghana is examined for the period 1982–2012. Life expectancy at birth is … used as proxy for health, and real per capita gross domestic product (GDP) for economic growth. The autoregressive … distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test approach to cointegration is used to estimate the short-and long-run effects of health on …

. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing … dependence of economic consequences on (i) disease characteristics; (ii) inequalities among individuals in terms of … and their macroeconomic repercussions. Fourth, we discuss the health toll and economic impacts of five infectious diseases …

of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic … costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone gross domestic product (GDP). Unlike previously adopted frameworks … diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases, diabetes, and mental health conditions). Overall, total losses associated with these …

of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic … costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone gross domestic product (GDP). Unlike previously adopted frameworks … diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases, diabetes, and mental health conditions). Overall, total losses associated with these …

measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application … influence disease prioritisation. It increases the value of health improvements relative to GDP. …We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan …

Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro …-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of … population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a generalized aggregate production function that decomposes output into its …

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The … the macroeconomic return to health. We reconcile the two approaches by controlling for the indirect effects of health … of health. Our results show that the macroeconomic return to health lies in the range of plausible microeconomic …

Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro …-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of … population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a generalized aggregate production function that decomposes output into its …