Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: THE HEALTH OF NATIONS SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
1. Global Trends in Life Expectancy 1820-2050
1.1. Trends in life expectancy at birth
1.2. Convergence in life expectancy
1.3. Convergence in infant mortality
2. The Age Structure of Life expectancy
2.1. The age-profile of mortality rates
2.2. The burden of infant mortality
2.3. Trends in mortality by age since the 1960s
3. Trends in Morbidity
3.1. A long-term perspective on morbidity in the United States
3.2. Morbidity trends among OECD countries since 1960
3.3. Global Patterns of Morbidity
PART II: THE DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH PROGRESS AFTER THE SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
1. A Review of Health Determinants
1.1. The case of OECD countries
1.2. Technological Progress in Medicine
1.3. Income and healthcare expenditures
1.4. Risk factors and education
2. Historical Determinants of the Health Transition
2.1. Health and development in historical perspective
2.2. What factors have driven the health transition?
PART III: THE CONSEQUENCES OF HEALTH IMPROVEMENT
1. Theoretical Framework
2. What factors explain the spread of mass education since 1870?
2.1. The spread of mass education since 1870
2.2. The potential factors at play
2.3. What does the data say?
3. What factors explain the fertility transition?
3.1. Historical Trends in Fertility
3.2. The replacement effect and the influence of modernization
3.3. Unveiling the correlations
3.4. Assessing causal effects
4. Fertility and longevity taken together: explaining the dynamics of population growth
4.1. The Kuznets curve of population growth
4.2. The determinants of population growth
5. The other consequences of health improvement
5.1. Saving
5.2. Total Factor Productivity
PART IV: HEALTH AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
1. The Macroeconomics of Health and Economic Growth
1.1. A Growth Accounting Framework
1.2. The adverse effect of health improvements in a Malthusian Economy
1.3. Health and endogenous growth
2. The Empirical Relationship Between Health and Growth
2.1. When Lucas meets Nelson-Phelps
2.2. Instrumental strategy and robustness tests
2.3. The case of OECD countries
PART V: THE COST OF HEALTH
1. Health Systems Among OECD Countries
1.1. Health outcomes
1.2. Health expenditures
1.3. Organizational features
2. Towards efficient health systems
2.1. The economic determinants of health expenditures
2.1. The policy determinants of health expenditures
2.3. Institutions and the efficiency of health systems
3. France as a case-study
3.1. Fighting stark health inequalities
3.2. Improving cost-efficiency
PART VI: HEALTH AND PROSPERITY
1. Prosperity Beyond GDP
1.1. The value of life
1.2. Defining prosperity
2. Global Prosperity over Time
Conclusion
References
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