Publication: Economic Consequences of Health Status: A Review of the Evidence
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1999-12
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Center for International Development at Harvard University
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Hamoudi, Amar A., and Jeffrey D. Sachs. “Economic Consequences of Health Status: A Review of the Evidence.” CID Working Paper Series 1999.30, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, December 1999.
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The correlation between health and economic performance is extremely robust across communities and over time. Many factors exogenous to income play an important role in determining health status, including a number of geographical, environmental, and evolutionary factors. This suggests the existence of simultaneous impacts of health on wealth and wealth on health. Potential health impacts on national economic performance are explored, and some important unanswered questions are identified.
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