Low income, social growth, and good health
Subtitle: a history of twelve countries
By: James C. Riley
Contributors: Milbank Memorial Fund
Series: California/Milbank books on health and the public -- 17
Publisher: University of California Press; Milbank Memorial Fund
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780520252868
Subjects: Life expectancy -- Economic aspects -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Life expectancy and income among the first countries to begin health transitions; title: Which countries should be studied?; title: A colonizer and the country colonized : Japan and Korea; title: Very low income is not a barrier : Sri Lanka; title: Two neighbors : Panama and Costa Rica; title: Capitalism and communism, dictatorship and democracy : Cuba and Jamaica; title: The Soviet and Chinese models of social development; title: Oil-rich lands; title: The Latin American case : income inequality and health in Mexico; title: Limiting mortality from fecal disease, malaria, and tuberculosis