[afro-nets] Economic growth and health

[Claudio Schuftan <claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn>]

Economic growth and health
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From: <spiritof1848@yahoogroups.com>

Readers may be interested in an article by Tapia Granados, ac-
companied by some commentaries and a rebuttal by Tapia Granados,
published in the Int. J. of Epidemiology 2005 (I think December)
which shows that rapid economic growth works ADVERSELY on health
i.e. poorer health associated with rapid growth. Conventional
wisdom is that economic growth is certainly not synonymous with
improved population health. Maybe economic health, but not popu-
lation health. They are different things. Of course, in this
context, raising the minimum wage is important in and of itself.
But raising the minimum wage has effects on health that are
separate from its effect on (and not as a result of) changes in
the economy.