Does health have a bad effect on GNP?

GNP (Gross National Product) measures the value of goods and services that the country's citizens produced regardless of their location. GNP is one measure of the economic condition of a country, under the assumption that a higher GNP leads to a higher quality of living, all other things being equal. See here.
So anything that creates an income increases GNP.
If the US goes to war, that increases GNP because moving an army, adding to the armoury and so on increases production.
A good earthquake and a volcanic eruption in the right place also increases GNP oddly enough.
Therefore bad health does so too. Or does it?

This is where the plot thickens I suppose. 

Several states sell tobacco and booze ant tax it heavily to fund the health system. I am told the tax income only covers a bit of it though I do not have the figures.

Now, building a polluting factory will increase GNP, may ruin nature and make the life of people living near it worse but then if they need medical attention that will increase GNP.

Health will only become productive if being healthy means you buy services in health clubs and obviously the medical attention being healthy and athletic craves, such as minding sprains or buying advice on health and healthy living.

Unfortunately health is very expensive, health foods, health resources and athletic gear are costly. Unhealthy living isn't.

There are several indicators that being ill is much better for jobs and GNP than being healthy. Private clinics are on the rise and definitions of medical conditions are too. 

One such clear indicator is the DSM scale issued by APA - the American Psychiatric Association. 

It appeared in 1952 and listed a 106 kinds of mental disorders. The second issue appeared in 1968 and listed a 182 disorders, - noting thought that a 1974 reprint excluded homosexuality as a mental disorder so by 1980 when the third version published they should have been 181. They were however 265 and remained so in 2000 when number four appeared. Sources close to the profession tell me that number five is about to appear listing more than 500 kinds of disorders. 

So are we more disordered?

Probably not. What has happened is that certain idiosyncracies are now disorders.Being impulsive or restless or perhaps rude even?

Why are we more disordered? 

We aren't but if the APA was to slash the number of disorders the thousands and thousands of graduating psychiatrists would not have anything to do.

So creating more illnesses is good for GNP and health is not.

or is it?

Let me come back to you on this...