In January 2000, WHO Director-General Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland set up a commission on
macroeconomics and health to clarify the links between health and economic development …

GENEVA—The relationship between poverty and health was the most prominent issue at
the World Health Assembly (WHA), held last month. At this annual gathering, their 55th, the …

This book mounts a critique of current health economics and provides a better way of
looking at the economics of health and health care. It argues that health economics has …

Economic scarcity and health Scarcity is a foundational concept in economics and is often
referred to as the basic economic problem. Scarcity implies that while resources are …

It is proper to preamble an essay of this sort with the observation that anyone who has
received health care for a serious illness is likely to agree that, with few exceptions, health …

Too often high-level health and development planners get so absorbed in the macro issues
of health economics that they lose sight of the micro issues. Little research has been done to …

A recurring note of frustration among public policy analysts is the lament that policy ideas
and arguments, compelling as they appear to their proponents, often have so little lasting …

Health economics has lost its way--or why David Kernick is (partly) right. - Abstract - Europe
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Economists and public health specialists do not always understand one another, to the
detriment of how health systems function. This collection of papers, spanning over 20 years …

Increased spending of $66 billion per year to improve the health status of developing
nations will provide a sixfold return on the investment, a group of leading economists and …