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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2019
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
JRC Working Papers in Economics and Finance No. 2019/9
Verlag: 
Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
Zusammenfassung: 
Using the economic complexity methodology on data for disease prevalence in 195 countries during the period of 1990-2016, we propose two new metrics for quantifying the relatedness between diseases, or the 'disease space' of countries. With these metrics, we analyze the geography of diseases and empirically investigate the effect of economic development on the health complexity of countries. We show that a higher income per capita increases the complexity of countries' diseases. Furthermore, we build a disease-level index that links a disease to the average level of GDP per capita of the countries for which they have a relative disease disadvantage. With this index, we highlight the link between economic development and the complexity of diseases and illustrate, at the disease-level, how increases in income per capita are associated with more complex diseases.
Schlagwörter: 
health complexity
disease complexity
economic development
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ISBN: 
978-92-76-02924-3
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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