Determinants Of Health care in Tamilnadu:An Econometric Analysis.

Abstract

The classical view of the relationship between health and economic development is that wealth leads to health, with health an output of the development process. Better health itself contributes to economic growth. Bloom and Canning (2003) and Gyimah – Brempong and Wilson (2004) found that health capital indicators positively influence aggregate output. Improved health contributes to economic growth in four ways: it reduces production loses caused by worker illness; it permits the use of natural resources that had been totally or nearly inaccessible because of disease; it increase the enrollment of children in school and increases their learning and it frees resources for alternative uses that would otherwise have to be spent on treating illness.  With increased urbanization, industrialization and the changing environment, health related issues and problems are being emphasized and have become a great concern for the contemporary world.