Biological Health Risks and Economic Development
Elizabeth Frankenberg,
Jessica Y. Ho and
Duncan Thomas
No 21277, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
Abstract:
With populations aging and the epidemic of obesity spreading across the globe, global health risks are shifting toward non-communicable diseases. Innovative biomarker data from recently conducted population-representative surveys in lower, middle and higher income countries are used to describe how four key biological health risks – hypertension, cholesterol, glucose and inflammation – vary with economic development and, within each country, with age, gender and education. As obesity rises in lower income countries, the burden of non-communicable diseases will rise in roughly predictable ways and the costs to society are potentially very large. Investigations that explain cross-country differences in these relationships will have a major impact on advancing understanding of the complex interplay between biology, health and development.
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Date: 2015-06
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Published as "Biological health risks and economic development." in John Komlos and Inas Rashad Kelly (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology, Oxford University Press, 2016
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