Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health: A History of Twelve Countries - Couverture rigide

Riley, James C.

 
9780520252868: Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health: A History of Twelve Countries
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0520252861 ISBN 13 : 9780520252868
Editeur : University of California Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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).

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520252861
ISBN 13 
9780520252868
Reliure
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
248
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