Answer: Our economic structure is set to measure development by the amount of products produced. This doesn't take into account our health and from a health standpoint, it doesn't make any sense at all. The typical example given is thatï»¿ every time someone gets cancer our Gross Domestic Product actually goes up, because all the medications, treatment and testing required to treat the patient adds revenue. Clearly that is not a good measure of development in any sort of social or health sense.