The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health: was it the right recipe?

[...] it also biases towards interventions for which the financial returns exceed the costs. [...] if health is seen as a means to economic growth, it may be vulnerable to sacrifice if other means are considered more important or show greater returns.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2011-12, Vol.378 (9807), p.1902-1903
Main Authors: Labonté, Ronald, Ruckert, Arne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Developing Countries
Economic Development
Economic growth
Financing, Organized
Global Health - economics
Health care policy
Health services
Humans
Internal Medicine
International Agencies
International finance
Medical research
Studies
Tax havens
Citations: Items that this one cites
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:[...] it also biases towards interventions for which the financial returns exceed the costs. [...] if health is seen as a means to economic growth, it may be vulnerable to sacrifice if other means are considered more important or show greater returns.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61785-6