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Poverty Trap Formed by the Ecology of Infectious Disease Matthew H. Bonds, Pejman Rohani, Donald Keenan, Jeffrey Sachs The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights Harvard School of Public Health Partners in Health Under revision, Proc. Roy. Soc. B

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Page 1: Poverty Trap Formed by the Ecology of Infectious Disease Matthew H. Bonds, Pejman Rohani, Donald Keenan, Jeffrey Sachs The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center

Poverty Trap Formed by the Ecology of Infectious Disease

Matthew H. Bonds, Pejman Rohani, Donald Keenan, Jeffrey Sachs

The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights

Harvard School of Public Health

Partners in Health

Under revision, Proc. Roy. Soc. B

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1. Income determines health- Nutrition- Sanitation and Waste Management- Access to Clean Water- Prevention, such as mosquito nets

2. Health determines income- Labor Productivity- School Attendance Rates- Longevity, Savings, and Investments- Fertility, household size

Theory of a Disease-Driven Poverty Trap

Public Health as Economic Development

From Economics Literature (Sachs, 2001, 2005, Bloom and Canning, 2005):

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Theory of a Disease-Driven Poverty Trap

Public Health as Economic Development

Accordingly we can estimate the following linear equations for rich and poor countries:

Disease Burden = f(Income, Temp, Rain, Disease Burden of Neighbors)

Income = f(Disease Burden, Temp, Rain, Nat Res, Landlocked, ELF)

Estimates for Rich Countries

Estimates for Poor Countries

Impact of Disease on Income

-.43*** -.51***

Income of Income on Disease

-.91* -.57**

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Public Health as Economic Development

Theory of a Disease-Driven Poverty Trap

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Public Health as Economic Development

Summary

The infectious disease burden is determined simultaneously by ecological and socioeconoimic processes

Nonlinear feedbacks between income and disease have the potential to form poverty traps where initial epidemiological and economic conditions can have impacts on long-term health and development of the society