Asthma Example: Trade-off Drivers

Next we ask, 'What are economic sectors or social drivers might benefit or lose from a change in human well-being?'

In this case, controlling asthma is certainly of interest to the health care system, but high rates of asthma, increased medical costs, and decreased worker productivity have potential to have broad economic costs across all sectors. Moreover, individual well-being can influence family dynamics or one�s sense of equity, if certain communities or cultures are more likely to be exposed.