IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/jda/journl/vol.39year2006issue2pp121-128.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Health status, diseases, and economic development: a cross-country analysis

Author

Listed:
  • Qureshi, Halima A.
  • Mohyuddin, Hasina A.

    (Alabama A&M University, USA
    Vanderbilt University, USA)

Abstract

With the help of cross-sectional data from eighteen developing countries, this paper investigates the impact of two health status indices (Under Five Mortality Rate and Life Expectance at Birth) and four different types of diseases (Tuberculosis, Diarrhea, Malaria, and Hepatitis) on GDP, as well as on the growth rate of GDP. The health status indices are found to have an insignificant impact on economic development. Similarly, two of the diseases, Tuberculosis and Diarrhea, are also found to have an insignificant impact. However, the two other diseases, Malaria and Hepatitis, are found to have a significant negative impact on GDP as well as on the growth rate of GDP. The findings of this paper thus imply that a policy aimed at reducing the incidence of Malaria and Hepatitis will promote economic development in developing countries.

Suggested Citation

  • Qureshi, Halima A. & Mohyuddin, Hasina A., 2006. "Health status, diseases, and economic development: a cross-country analysis," Journal of Developing Areas, Tennessee State University, College of Business, vol. 39(2), pages 121-128, January-M.
    • Handle: RePEc:jda:journl:vol.39:year:2006:issue2:pp:121-128
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jda/summary/v039/39.2qureshi.html
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Yahyaoui Ismahene, 2022. "Infectious Diseases, Trade, and Economic Growth: a Panel Analysis of Developed and Developing Countries," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 13(3), pages 2547-2583, September.
    2. Essosinam Franck Karabou & Komlan Ametowoyo Adeve & Kossi Atsutsè Dziédzom Tsomdzo, 2021. "Dépenses publiques de santé, état de santé et croissance en Afrique Subsaharienne: Cas de l'Afrique de l'Est et de l'Ouest," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 33(2), pages 397-407, June.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:jda:journl:vol.39:year:2006:issue2:pp:121-128. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Abu N.M. Wahid (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cbtnsus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.