Valuing health as development: going beyond gross domestic product

BMJ. 2018 Oct 23:363:k4371. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4371.

Authors

Victoria Y Fan¹, David E Bloom², Osondu Ogbuoji³, Klaus Prettner⁴, Gavin Yamey⁵

Affiliations

¹ Office of Public Health Studies, Myron B Thompson School of Social Work, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, USA.
² Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
⁴ University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.
⁵ Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA gavin.yamey@duke.edu.

Abstract

GDP per capita is a narrow, inadequate metric for capturing the true, full value of health investments, say Victoria Fan and colleagues

MeSH terms

Developing Countries
Economic Development
Gross Domestic Product*
Health Expenditures
Health Status Indicators*
Humans

Grants and funding

U54 MD007584/MD/NIMHD NIH HHS/United States