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David M. Mirvis, MD; David E. Bloom, PhD

JAMA. 2008;300(1):93-95.

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The relationships between health and economic conditions have been known for many years.^1-3 Richer nations generally have better overall health conditions than do poorer nations and more affluent individuals within a country have, on average, better health than do poorer individuals. Also, less healthy individuals enter the labor market less often, work fewer hours, and earn lower wages, with direct financial consequences to themselves, their families, and the businesses for which they work.

An expanded understanding of the relationship between health and macroeconomic performance is that "health is an economic engine."^2-3 This concept proposes that better population health leads to economic growth. The World Health Organization has supported this concept to encourage direct international investment in health-promoting services in developing nations as a means to advance economic growth.³ This concept of health as an economic engine also has important implications for US . . . [Full Text of this Article]

From Population Health to Economic Development

Author Affiliations: University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis (Dr Mirvis); and Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Bloom).

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