Low income, social growth, and good health : a history of twelve countries
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Low income, social growth, and good health : a history of twelve countries
(California/Milbank series on health and the public, 17)
University of California Press , Milbank Memorial Fund, c2008
- : cloth
Available at 9 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p.183-219) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Foreword by Daniel M. Fox and Samuel L. Milbank Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Life Expectancy and Income among the First Countries to Begin Health Transitions 2. Which Countries Should Be Studied? 3. A Colonizer and the Country Colonized: Japan and Korea 4. Very Low Income Is Not a Barrier: Sri Lanka 5. Two Neighbors: Panama and Costa Rica 6. Capitalism and Communism, Dictatorship and Democracy: Cuba and Jamaica 7. The Soviet and Chinese Models of Social Development 8. Oil-Rich Lands 9. The Latin American Case: Income Inequality and Health in Mexico 10. Limiting Mortality from Fecal Disease, Malaria, and Tuberculosis Conclusion Appendix: Chronology of Health Transitions and Gross Domestic Product per Capita in 167 Countries Notes Index
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