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Poverty and Life Expectancy - The Jamaica Paradox (Paperback) Loot Price: R961
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Poverty and Life Expectancy - The Jamaica Paradox (Paperback): James C. Riley

Poverty and Life Expectancy - The Jamaica Paradox (Paperback)

James C. Riley

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Poverty and Life Expectancy is 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 have attained a life expectancy nearly matching the rich lands, despite having a much lower level of per capita income. Why this is so is the Jamaica paradox. This book provides an answer, surveying possible explanations of Jamaica's rapid gains in life expectancy. The rich countries could invest large sums in reducing mortality, but Jamaica and other low-income countries had to find inexpensive means of doing so. Jamaica's approach especially emphasized that schoolchildren and their parents master lessons about how to manage disease hazards. This book also argues that low-income countries with high life expectancy, such as Jamaica, provide more realistic models as to how other poor countries where life expectancy remains low can improve survival.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 2011
First published: June 2011
Authors: James C. Riley
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-40369-7
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment
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LSN: 1-107-40369-3
Barcode: 9781107403697

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