| Description |
xvi, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 17 |
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California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 17
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| Contents |
Life expectancy and income among the first countries to begin health transitions -- Which countries should be studied? -- A colonizer and the country colonized : Japan and Korea -- Very low income is not a barrier : Sri Lanka -- Two neighbors : Panama and Costa Rica -- Capitalism and communism, dictatorship and democracy : Cuba and Jamaica -- The Soviet and Chinese models of social development -- Oil-rich lands -- The Latin American case : income inequality and health in Mexico -- Limiting mortality from fecal disease, malaria, and tuberculosis |
| Summary |
"This book explores how twelve countries - China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Oman, Panama, the former Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela - broke through the limits that low income so often imposes on human survival. Most made impressive gains in the life expectancy in the decades after 1920 and by 1960 nearly matched the rich countries in survival. James C. Riley finds that each of these countries enjoyed significant social growth, each invested in public health, and each gained its citizens' participation in efforts to improve their own lives and health. His innovative research and analysis supports an alternative to the conventional model of growth, one in which the measure of a nation's success is not its per capita income but the longevity of it's population. This book argues that social rather than economic development creates the surer path to longer and healthier lives for people in developing countries."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-219) and index |
| Subject |
Life expectancy -- Economic aspects -- Case studies.
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Life Expectancy -- ethnology.
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Income.
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Socioeconomic Factors.
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Global Health.
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| Genre/Form |
Case Reports.
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Case studies.
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| Author |
Milbank Memorial Fund.
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| LC no. |
2007004611 |
| ISBN |
9780520252868 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0520252861 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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