The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance (2003) 28, 304–315. doi:10.1111/1468-0440.00225
Health as Human Capital and its Impact on Economic Performance
David Bloom1,* and David Canning2,*
- 1Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Harvard School of Public Health
- 2Professor of Economics and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health
*This paper is based on a keynote address given to the WHO Conference on Health and Disability, Trieste, Italy, April 2002. The authors are grateful to the participants in the conference for their comments and subsequent discussions. We would also like to thank Larry Rosenberg for his comments.
