Health and Growth

Marc Notes: Commission on Growth and Development.; Bibl. ref. & index. Table of Contents: Preface -- Workshop Participants -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Health Investments and Economic Growth: Macroeconomic Evidence and Microeconomic Foundations / William Jack, Maureen Lewis -- 2. Health and Economic Growth: Policy Reports and the Making of Policy Sir / George Alleyne -- 3. Population Health and Economic Growth / David E. Bloom, David Canning -- 4. Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth / Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson -- 5. Disease and Development: Evidence from Hookworm Eradication in the American South / Hoyt Bleakley -- 6. Early Life Nutrition and Subsequent Education, Health, Wage, and Intergenerational Effects / Jere R. Behrman -- Index -- Figures -- 1.1. Health Improvements and the Advent of Barefoot Doctors in China -- 1.2. The Preston Curve, 2001 -- 1.3. Normalized Cross-Country Standard Deviations of Health and Income, 1960-2004 -- 1.4. Income Growth and Infant Mortality Rate Reductions in China and India, 1960-2000 -- 1.5. Cognitive or Schooling Deficits Associated with Moderate Stunting in Children Less Than Three Years Old from Six Longitudinal Studies -- 1.6. Returns to Different Levels of Education Based on Family Background -- 1.7. Returns to Different Levels of Education and Family Background -- 1.8. Absentee Rates among Health Workers in Select Countries, 1989-2003 -- 2.1. Tons of Ore Mined per Worker per Day, 1923 -- 2.2. Relationship between Output per Worker and Nutritional Status in Denmark -- 2.3. Growth Rate of Income per Capita. 1965-94 -- 2.4. Age-Adjusted Death Rate per 100,000 Population from Diabetes in Caribbean and North American Countries, 2000 -- 3.1. Income and Life Expectancy, 2005 -- 3.2. Population in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Age, 1960-2040 -- 3.3. Population in East Asia, by Age, 1950-2060 -- 4.1. Log Life Expectancy at Birth for Initially Rich, Middle-Income, and Poor Countries, Base Sample -- 4.2. Log GDP per Capita for Initially Rich, Middle-Income, and Poor Countries, Base Sample -- 4.3. Change in Log Life Expectancy and Change in Predicted Mortality, 1940-80, Base Sample. Publisher Marketing: Does investing in health raise economic growth? Can governments achieve rapid growth or high incomes without investing in health? What are the options and benefits of different analytic approaches to measuring the causal link between health and growth? Have medical advances influenced life expectancy levels? Do health investments lead to higher individual productivity? Why are investments in early childhood development and nutrition important? How do governments invest in improving health status? Where should governments invest in health to improve the welfare and health status of the population? What are the pitfalls in public health care provision and finance? How can public investments raise health status and household productivity? This book has been prepared for the Commission on Growth and Development to evaluate the state of knowledge on the relationship between health and economic growth. It does not pretend to provide all the answers, but it does review the evidence as well as identify insights and policy levers to help countries pinpoint critical health investments that can enhance and strengthen national growth strategies. It examines a variety of topics including policy imperatives in assessing the benefits of health investments, the methodological challenges in measuring the link between health and economic growth at the macroeconomic level, and the nature of the evidence on the types and timing of interventions that promote health, productivity, and earnings. Written by prominent academics in their fields, 'Health and Growth' seeks to create a better understanding of the role of health investments in growth and to inform policy makers of the benefi ts and pitfalls of alternative scenarios." Contributor Bio:  Spence, Michael Michael Spence, co-recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, is Professor Emeritus of Management at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and Professor of Economics at New York University's Stern School of Business. He served as Chairman of the Commission on Growth and Development from 2006 to 2010 (the life of the commission). He is the author of "The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World". Contributor Bio:  Acemoglu, Daron Daron Acemoglu is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005. He is the author of numerous works including Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, with James Robinson (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Introduction to Modern Economic Growth (2009). He is the current editor of Econometrica. Contributor Bio:  Johnson, Simon Simon Johnson (Victoria, Australia) has 10 years experience as an IT security professional with a number of organizations and government departments. He co-founded and managed Shake Communications in 1997, an IT security business. In 1998 he co-founded SecuritySearch. Net, which at the time, was the largest IT security portal on the Internet. SecuritySearch. Net received more than 155,000 page views per month and sent free security newsletters to more than 16,000 subscribers worldwide, per week. The site was sold in 2002 to US security firm GFI. The newsletter subscription arm of the business was sold to US security firm, Relevant Technologies. Johnson has been interviewed in television and print media on IT Security related topics, including Business 2.0, Computerworld, Corporate Risk, CNET News.com, Internetnews.com, Newswire, SBS World News, TechWeb, The Age, Wired Magazine and ZDNet News. He's written content for Total Surveillance by John Parker (Piatkas Publishing UK, 2000) and reviewed the business and e-commerce chapters in the book, Internet and World Wide Web by Deitel (Prentice Hall, 2002). Contributor Bio:  Behrman, Jere R Jere R. Behrman is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Alejandro Gaviria is assistant director of FEDESARROLLO in Bogota, Colombia. Miguel Szkely is assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the Social Development Secretariat in the Office of the President of Mexico.