ISBN:
9780511750656
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 406 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
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DDC:
304.6/408832095
Keywords:
Infants Mortality
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Infants Mortality
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Infants ; Mortality ; East Asia
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Infants ; Mortality ; Latin America
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East Asia ; Social policy
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East Asia ; Economic policy
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Latin America ; Social policy
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Latin America ; Economic policy
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East Asia Social policy
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East Asia Economic policy
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Latin America Social policy
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Latin America Economic policy
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Ostasien
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Sozialpolitik
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Medizinische Versorgung
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Wirtschaftsentwicklung
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Lateinamerika
Abstract:
Why do some societies fare well, and others poorly, at reducing the risk of early death? Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America finds that the public provision of basic health care and other inexpensive social services has reduced mortality rapidly even in tough economic circumstances, and that political democracy has contributed to the provision and utilization of such social services, in a wider range of ways than is sometimes recognized. These conclusions are based on case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, as well as on cross-national comparisons involving these cases and others
Abstract:
Incomes, capabilities, and mortality decline -- Democracy, spending, services, and survival -- Costa Rica : a healthy democracy -- Chile : the Pinochet paradox -- Argentina : big welfare state, slow infant mortality decline -- Brazil : from laggard to leader in basic health service provision -- Taiwan : from poor but healthy to wealthy and healthy -- South Korea : small welfare state, fast infant mortality decline -- Thailand : democratization speeds infant mortality decline -- Indonesia : authoritarianism slows infant mortality decline -- Wealth, health, democracy, and mortality
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511750656
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