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Wealth, health, and democracy in East Asia and Latin America /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Wealth, health, and democracy in East Asia and Latin America // James W. McGuire.
remainder title:	Wealth, Health, & Democracy in East Asia & Latin America
Author:	McGuire, James W.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 406 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Infants - Mortality - East Asia. -
Subject:	East Asia - Commercial policy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511750656
ISBN:	9780511750656 (ebook)

Wealth, health, and democracy in East Asia and Latin America /
McGuire, James W.

Wealth, health, and democracy in East Asia and Latin America /Wealth, Health, & Democracy in East Asia & Latin AmericaJames W. McGuire. - 1 online resource (xviii, 406 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780511750656 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

799458
Infants
--Mortality--East Asia.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

782809
East Asia
--Commercial policy.

LC Class. No.: HB1323.I42 / E1863 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 304.6/408832095

Wealth, health, and democracy in East Asia and Latin America /
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