Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health
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Author_James C. Riley
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china
costa rica
cuba
diseases
economic development
economic growth
economics
epidemiology
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greater longevity
health care
health care delivery
human survival
industrialized world
jamaica
japan
korea
life expectancy
low income
mexico
national achievement
oman
panama
per capita income
political economy
population studies
poverty
public health
quality of life
rich countries
social class
social growth
social issues
society
sociology
soviet union
sri lanka
venezuela
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- ISBN 9780520252868
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Oct 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book studies the experience of twelve countries that have broken through the limits that low incomes so often impose on human survival: China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Oman, Panama, the former Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela. Most made impressive gains in life expectancy in the decades after 1920, and by 1960 nearly matched the rich countries in survival. James C. Riley finds that all of these countries enjoyed significant social growth, all invested in public health, and all gained the people's participation in the effort to improve their own lives and health. This innovative analysis suggests an alternative model of growth in which the measure of a nation's success is not its per capita income but the life expectancy of its population.
James C. Riley is Professor of History at Indiana University. He is the author of Poverty and Life Expectancy: The Jamaica Paradox (2005) and Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History (2001).
