Product Description: • 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...read more

Product Description: AIDS poses an even worse problem in developing countries than elsewhere because the counts of AIDS cases are accepted as gross underestimates, tracking of AIDS carriers is rare, government health resources are already stretched thin, and little is known about the cost-effectiveness of alternative approaches to prevention...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)