Relationship between health status and economic growth

Abstract

This article examines the relationship between health status and economic growth with the objective to study factors affecting health status and studying the relationship between health status and economic growth. Which can be a way to manage the health of workers in the country, one of the factors that will make the economy grow. The study employed multiple regression analysis for data analysis using cross-sectional data from UNDP 2018and WHO 2018. There were in total of 175 countries used for the study. The results showed that factors influencing life expectancy were alcohol consumption per capita,literacy rate, population, and total gross domestic product. Factors influencing tuberculosis were population, and total gross domestic product. Factors influencing HIV were number of physicians, and alcohol consumption per capita. Factors influencing mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution were health expenditures,education expenditures, literacy rate, and total gross domestic product. Factors influencing mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene services were health expenditures, number of physicians,
population, population using improved sanitation facilities, population using improved drinking-water sources, and total gross domestic product. For health factors affecting total gross domestic product were tuberculosis, HIV, and mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution