[MCN] Health care -> economic growth

Lance Olsen lance at wildrockies.org
Fri Jul 14 10:28:58 EDT 2017


Case in point: A major, one-time wave of support - such as an injection of capital or agricultural supplies - might be enough to disrupt the vicious cycle of feedback between poverty and disease and set a country on a path of healthy development. However, this widely adopted development approach would only provide temporary relief in some circumstances, the study shows. In those cases, only permanent and sustained system changes can create lasting economic development and public health improvement.

Rwanda is a shining example. It provided broad and robust access to health care for the poor through social insurance systems. Dramatic economic growth followed.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/su-euo071417.php <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/su-euo071417.php>

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“Whereas any one line of evidence may be weak in itself, a number of lines of evidence, 
taken together and found to be consistent, reinforce one another exponentially.”

Preston Cloud and Aharon Gibor. The Oxygen Cycle. 
Scientific American, September 1970





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