a ISBN 0-262-12276-6

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number W74.1

b Item number .H43 2005

a Title Health and economic growth:

b Remainder of title findings and policy implications/

c Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Guillem López-Casasnovas, Berta Rivera, and Luis Currais.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Cambridge, Mass. :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc MIT Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc c2005.

a Extent x, 385 p. :

b Other physical details ill.;

c Dimensions 24 cm.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.

a Formatted contents note Introduction : The role health plays in economic growth / Guillem López-Casasnovas, Berta Rivera, and Luis Currais -- Health, human capital, and economic growth : a Schumpeterian perspective / Peter Howitt -- Health as a principal determinant of economic growth / Adriaan van Zon and Joan Muysken -- Health's contribution to economic growth in an environment of partially endogenous technical progress / Dean T. Jamison, Lawrence J. Lau, and Jia Wang -- On the health-poverty trap / Xavier Sala-i-Martín -- Human development traps and economic growth / David Mayer-Foulkes -- Health, education, and economic development / Edward Miguel -- Nutrition, malnutrition, and economic growth / Harold Alderman, Jere R. Behrman, and John Hoddinott -- On epidemiologic and economic transitions : a historical view / Suchit Arora -- Economic growth, health, and longevity in the very long term : facts and mechanisms / Olivier F. Morand -- Productive benefits of health : evidence from low-income countries / T. Paul Schultz -- Individual returns to health in Brazil : a quantile regression analysis / Berta Rivera and Luis Currais -- The economic cost of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa : reassessment / Tomas J. Philipson and Rodrigo R. Soares -- Profits and people : on the incentives of business to get involved in the fight against AIDS / David Bloom and Jaypee Sevilla.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Medical economics

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Medical policy

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Economic development

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Macroeconomics

a Personal name LópezCasasnovas Guillem

d Dates associated with a name 1955

a Personal name Rivera Berta

a Personal name Currais Luis