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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