The economic burden of chronic diseases: Estimates and projections for China, Japan, and South Korea

We propose a novel framework to analyze the macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic burden of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone gross d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bloom, D., Chen, S., Kuhn, M., McGovern, M., Oxley, Leslie, Prettner, K.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74263