Poverty and Life Expectancy - The Jamaica Paradox

Klappentext A multidisciplinary study explaining Jamaica's rise from low to high life expectancy. Zusammenfassung A multidisciplinary study that reconstructs Jamaica's rise from low to high life expectancy and explains how that was achieved. Jamaica is one of the small number of countries that has attained a life expectancy nearly matching that in richer countries! despite having a much lower level of per capita income. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. 'A singular blessed island'; 2. What needs to be explained?; 3. The situation around 1920; 4. Rapid gains in life expectancy, 1920-50; 5. The good years, 1950-72; 6. Against growing odds, 1972-2000; 7. Conclusion; Appendix 1. Estimates of life expectancy, 1881-1964; Appendix 2. Official sources for quantitative information.

Product details

• Authors: James C. Riley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2011
• EAN: 9781107403697
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40369-7
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, Poverty & unemployment, Public health & preventive medicine, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Public health and preventive medicine, Poverty and precarity