健康与经济发展关系:国外研究综述

A traditional review of the relationship between health and economic growth:overseas studies

本文总结了健康因素与经济增长关系的研究进展,研究二者关系的主要方法有三种:一是假定技术进步是外生性的,二是假设理论模型中健康对经济增长是内生性的,三是假设差的健康状况是一种直接成本,进而研究流行病学疾病模式的转变与经济发展之间的相关性。在总结了目前该领域已有的研究后,建议将理论和经验研究应用于实践,提出了今后研究的方向,并希望健康与经济增长方面的研究能够为我国经济的长期健康发展起到借鉴作用。

This paper summarized the overall overseas studies of the relationship between health and economics growth. There are three main methodological approaches, i. e. , （ 1 ） technological progress is assumed as an exogenous variable; （2） health is assumed to be an endogenous variable in theoretical studies; （3） Disease-burden is an indirect factor to the economic growth in the epidemiological studies. The paper suggests that results derived from theory and empirical studies should be put into practice. Finally, the paper is to provide some valid information for future research in China.