Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America

AvJames W. McGuire

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-03-15
Mått:155 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:426
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521139342

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James W. McGuire is a professor in the Department of Government at Wesleyan University, Connecticut. He specializes in comparative politics with a regional focus on Latin America and East Asia and a topical focus on democracy and public health. He is the author of Peronism without Perón: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina and is a recipient of Wesleyan's Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

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“McGuire demonstrates that democracies are better at providing ‘good health at low cost’ than are less-free political systems. His thorough work also puts the capstone on a large and consistent body of research showing that a population need not be rich to be healthy.” – Health Affairs

Innehållsförteckning

1. Incomes, capabilities, and mortality decline; 2. Democracy, spending, services, and survival; 3. Costa Rica: a healthy democracy; 4. Chile: the pinochet paradox; 5. Argentina: big welfare state, slow infant mortality decline; 6. Brazil: from laggard to leader in basic health service provision; 7. Taiwan: from poor but healthy to wealthy and healthy; 8. South Korea: small welfare state, fast infant mortality decline; 9. Thailand: democratization speeds infant mortality decline; 10. Indonesia: authoritarianism slows infant mortality decline; 11. Wealth, health, democracy, and mortality.