건강투자론에 대한 비판적 고찰

초록

The purpose of this paper is to have a critical review of investment in health for economic development. The Commission on Macroeconomic and Health report of 2001 argued that global effort should be made on increasing investment in health for economic development, especially among developing countries. The report is being adopted as the blueprint for global health policy making. Theoretically, the effect of investment in health on accumulation of nation's wealth are made through four pathways ?production, education, investment in physicalcapital, demographic dividend. There have been somewhat scientific evidences demonstrating the correlation, especiallyamong developing countries. But the correlation may not be clear in micro- and macro-economic studies among developed countries. Some authors concerned or criticized about the CMH report. It ignores macroeconomic determinants and other causes of both poor health and poverty and recommends greater amounts of charity while preserving the status quo of a deeply unjust and irrational international economic order. But, considering that economic growth have been embedded through entire Korean society and both investment in health and health as a right need a active involvement in health sector of government, the development of health policy in different levels of government, based on integratingtwo perspectives, may be progressive and practical in Korea.

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