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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.
Price: $85.00
Pages: 248
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public
Publication Date:
09 October 2007
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520252868
Format: Hardcover
“Well written and carefully laid out, this book is accessible to a wide audience.”
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).
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
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