determinants of life expectancy gain (considered as an indicator of global health improvement at country level). In order to treat … system GMM. Our analyses show that income is critical for health enhancement. Particularly, we find that GDP per capita is … sanitation and safe water appear positively correlated health gain. In contrast the high incidence of extreme poverty is …

This paper has been designed to investigate whether health accelerate economic growth in Pakistan. The study is using … Accounting Method shows that Total Factor Productivity, Capital and health contributed 46.61%, 43.15% and 2.61% to growth rate of … GDP per capita during 1971-2008. The Ordinary Least Squares results showed health, labour and Research and Development as …

Using a rich cross-sectional dataset, we estimate the effect of meetings with friends on self-perceived health, chronic … correlated with self-perceived health, negatively associated with chronic conditions but not related to limitations in activities …

In general, countries with more equal income distribution generally enjoy better health. Earlier empirical studies on … the relationship between income distribution and health at country level present strong evidence that income inequality on … an average impedes the improvement of population health. However, a majority of these empirical studies are based on data …

of health infrastructure and current health status for a constituent state of India using principal component method and … examines the interlinkage between them as well as that between health status and economic development. Relative position of the … districts within the state is explored to identify the determinants of health status using simple econometric exercise. Results …

The present study investigates the state of health of the older adults in India from a socioeconomic and cultural … round of the National Sample Survey in 2004. The state of physical health is defined in terms of the count of chronic … health and the socioeconomic and cultural factors. The findings based on the Poisson regression models affirm the association …

composite indices based on available important techniques using 12 indicators variables on health and education. The findings …

the Real GDP per capita in Pakistan. Health, labour force , and Physical capital are among the other determinants of Real …