The study is intended to present a preliminary analysis of how health affects education and work, and of how education and work affect economic growth, using data from such countries as Britain, the USA, China and India, over many years. A complication, of course, is that living standards affect health. Health will involve such data variables as life expectancy, population and the size of the health workforce. Education will be measured using average years of education in the workforce, "years" of education delivered in each year, and the size of the education workforce. Economic growth will be measured from the latest GDP results of the World Bank ICP and Angus Maddison's data. Information on workforce, workers and gross capital stock will also be analysed.

The method may be to use cointegrating VAR system econometrics country by country, but no final decision on statistical method has been taken yet. The attraction of a cointegrating VAR system in this context is that it allows exploration of long run cointegrating relationships, which could be of partcular interest here.

A subsidiary objective of the study is to shed some light on the relative efficiency of health systems across countries.