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  "title": "The First Wealth",
  "publication": "IMF Blog, December 8, 2014",
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  "summary": "Title: The First Wealth",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Title: The First Wealth\n- Author: Jeff Hayden\n- Publication date: December 8, 2014\n- Central premise: \"The first wealth is health,\" a quotation attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860), framing health as the foundation for individuals, communities, and economies."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Health disparities and major challenges",
      "content": "- Humanity has made significant advances: development of vaccines and medical techniques, and increased access to clean water and sanitation.\n- Persistent and stark disparities:\n  - A 38-year gap in life expectancy between Japan (83 years) and Sierra Leone (45 years).\n- Contemporary reminder of vulnerability:\n  - As the December issue went to press, the world was dealing with the worst outbreak of the Ebola virus on record."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Health systems and the economics of health",
      "content": "- Focus on health systems as \"the amalgam of people, practices, rules, and institutions that serve the health needs of a population.\"\n- Role of good health in economic mobility:\n  - David E. Bloom underscores the role good health plays in an individual’s or household’s ability to rise, or stay, above the poverty line.\n- Public health spending trends and analysis:\n  - Victoria Fan and Amanda Glassman examine the shift in public health spending from central governments to states and cities.\n  - Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta, and Baoping Shang analyze whether the recent slowdown in public health spending in advanced economies is permanent."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Contributions and frontline perspectives",
      "content": "- Reports from practitioners and leaders:\n  - Health ministers from Colombia and Rwanda discuss major challenges they face.\n  - The CEO of a pharmaceutical company describes impediments to developing drugs to fight emerging diseases.\n- Special feature: consideration of four major health threats of the 21st century."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Additional content in the issue",
      "content": "- Profile: Maureen Burke profiles 2012 Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth.\n- Visual feature: \"Picture This\" offers insight into an increasingly urbanized world."
    },
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      "heading": "About the IMFBlog",
      "content": "- IMFBlog purpose: a forum for the views of IMF staff and officials on pressing economic and policy issues of the day.\n- IMF context: The IMF, based in Washington D.C., is an organization of 191 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation and financial stability around the world.\n- Disclaimer: The views expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF and its Executive Board.\n\nSource: IMFBlog page \"The First Wealth\" (December 8, 2014).\n\n---\n\n\n References\n\n- Finance and Development\n- the role good health plays\n- the shift in public health spending\n- the recent slowdown in public health spending\n- health ministers from Colombia\n- Rwanda\n- impediments to developing drugs to fight emerging diseases\n- four major health threats of the 21st century\n- 2012 Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth\n- Picture This\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2014/12/08/the-first-wealth"
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    "Central premise: \"The first wealth is health,\" a quotation attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860), framing health as the foundation for individuals, communities, and economies.",
    "Humanity has made significant advances: development of vaccines and medical techniques, and increased access to clean water and sanitation.",
    "Persistent and stark disparities:",
    "Contemporary reminder of vulnerability:",
    "Focus on health systems as \"the amalgam of people, practices, rules, and institutions that serve the health needs of a population.\"",
    "Role of good health in economic mobility:",
    "Public health spending trends and analysis:",
    "Reports from practitioners and leaders:",
    "Special feature: consideration of four major health threats of the 21st century.",
    "Profile: Maureen Burke profiles 2012 Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth.",
    "Visual feature: \"Picture This\" offers insight into an increasingly urbanized world.",
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    "IMF context: The IMF, based in Washington D.C., is an organization of 191 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation and financial stability around the world.",
    "Disclaimer: The views expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF and its Executive Board.",
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