Health and development :
Health and development : a compilation of articles from Finance & development.
Subtitle on cover: Why investing in health is critical for achieving economic development goals Health & development
- Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, c2004.
- vi, 56 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Articles originally published between March 1998 and March 2004. "Editor, Jeremy Clift"--T.p. verso. "December 2004."
Includes bibliographical references.
Getting there: how to accelerate progress toward the Millennium development goals / Checking up on health -- Health, wealth, and welfare: new evidence coupled with a wider perspective suggest sizable economic returns to better health / Making health care accountable: why performance-based funding of health services in developing countries is getting more attention / New antimalarial drugs: biology and economics meet: a global public goods commission looks at ways to stop or slow the spread of drug-resistant strains of malaria / Medicines, patents, and TRIPS: has the intellectual property pact opened a Pandora's box for the pharmaceuticals industry / Debt relief and public health spending in heavily indebted poor countries / Making services work for poor people: the poor need more control over essential services / Confronting AIDS / Coping with the impact of AIDS / Setting government priorities in preventing HIV/AIDS / Making AIDS part of the global development agenda / Death and taxes: the economics of tobacco control / Mark Baird and Sudhir Shetty -- David E. Bloom, David Canning, and Dean T. Jamison -- Robert Hecht, Amie Batson, and Logan Brenzel -- Kenneth J. Arrow -- Arvind Subramanian -- Sanjeev Gupta ... [et al.] -- Shantayanan Devarajan and Ritva Reinikka -- Lyn Squire -- Mead Over -- Martha Ainsworth -- Robert Hecht, Olusoji Adeyi, and Iris Semini -- Prabhat Jha, Joy de Beyer, and Peter S. Heller.
This book ranges over a variety of topics, from the millennium development goals and health-related targets for 2015 to the economics tobacco control.
1589063414
2005296228
Medical economics--Developing countries.
Medical economics.
International finance.
Finance--Developing countries.
Economic assistance--Developing countries.
RA410.55.D48 / H397 2004
338.4'33621
Articles originally published between March 1998 and March 2004. "Editor, Jeremy Clift"--T.p. verso. "December 2004."
Includes bibliographical references.
Getting there: how to accelerate progress toward the Millennium development goals / Checking up on health -- Health, wealth, and welfare: new evidence coupled with a wider perspective suggest sizable economic returns to better health / Making health care accountable: why performance-based funding of health services in developing countries is getting more attention / New antimalarial drugs: biology and economics meet: a global public goods commission looks at ways to stop or slow the spread of drug-resistant strains of malaria / Medicines, patents, and TRIPS: has the intellectual property pact opened a Pandora's box for the pharmaceuticals industry / Debt relief and public health spending in heavily indebted poor countries / Making services work for poor people: the poor need more control over essential services / Confronting AIDS / Coping with the impact of AIDS / Setting government priorities in preventing HIV/AIDS / Making AIDS part of the global development agenda / Death and taxes: the economics of tobacco control / Mark Baird and Sudhir Shetty -- David E. Bloom, David Canning, and Dean T. Jamison -- Robert Hecht, Amie Batson, and Logan Brenzel -- Kenneth J. Arrow -- Arvind Subramanian -- Sanjeev Gupta ... [et al.] -- Shantayanan Devarajan and Ritva Reinikka -- Lyn Squire -- Mead Over -- Martha Ainsworth -- Robert Hecht, Olusoji Adeyi, and Iris Semini -- Prabhat Jha, Joy de Beyer, and Peter S. Heller.
This book ranges over a variety of topics, from the millennium development goals and health-related targets for 2015 to the economics tobacco control.
1589063414
2005296228
Medical economics--Developing countries.
Medical economics.
International finance.
Finance--Developing countries.
Economic assistance--Developing countries.
RA410.55.D48 / H397 2004
338.4'33621