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

We propose a novel framework to analyse 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 costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone gross do...

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Main Authors: Bloom, David E. (Author) , Chen, Simiao (Author) , Kuhn, Michael (Author) , McGovern, Mark E. (Author) , Oxley, Les (Author) , Prettner, Klaus (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Bonn, Germany IZA July 2017
Series:Discussion paper / IZA no. 10896
In: Discussion paper series (no. 10896)

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Online Access:Resolving-System, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/170880
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Author Notes:David E. Bloom, Simiao Chen, Michael Kuhn, Mark E. McGovern, Les Oxley, Klaus Prettner
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