Measuring health and economic wellbeing in the Sustainable Development Goals era: development of a poverty-free life expectancy metric and estimates for 90 countries

Summary: Background: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in September, 2015, emphasise the link between health and economic development policies. Despite this link, and the multitude of targets and indicators in the SDGs and other initiatives, few monitoring tools explicitly incorpora...

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Main Authors: Carlos Riumallo-Herl, PhD, David Canning, ProfPhD, Joshua A Salomon, ProfPhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-08-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X18302778