Macroeconomics of a country depicts the health of the population. There have been many outbreaks and pandemics of infectious diseases like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), H5N1 avian influenza, H1N1 swine influenza, Ebola, and COVID-19 or of noncommunicable diseases. 1. How have these outbreaks or pandemics directly and indirectly affected national and global economies? 2. Explain how national and international health care systems have handled the outbreak. 3. How have they differed in their methods? 4. In what ways have the economies and the health care systems impacted each other during these outbreaks?
