Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health

A History of Twelve Countries

By:

James C. Riley

Format:

Hardback

Series:

California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public

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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.

Author Biography:

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).

Release date Australia

October 9th, 2007

Author

James C. Riley

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

35 line illustrations, 16 tables

Pages

248

Series

California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public

Dimensions

152x229x23

ISBN-13

9780520252868

Product ID

2322816

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