PHA-Exchange> Economic growth and health

[Claudio]

From:; <spiritof1848 at yahoogroups.com>


Readers may be interested in an article by Tapia Granados,  accompanied 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 population 
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.