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

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.

 

Cambridge University Press page for Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America

Web Appendices: on this website and under “Ancillary Materials” on the Cambridge page

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles in Economics, 2010 (scroll down)

Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research announcement and citation

Blurbs from the back cover

1. (Anonymous). Health Affairs 29.8 (August 2010), 1555.

2. Gerber, James (San Diego State). Choice September 2010, Review 48-0397.

3. Bongaarts, John. (Population Council). Population and Development Review 37.1 (March 2011), 208-209.

4. Wong, Joseph (University of Toronto). Governance 24.2 (April 2011), 401-403 (scroll to p. 401).

5. Gómez, Eduardo J. (Rutgers). Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 36.2 (April 2011), 353-356.

6. Clark, Mary A. (Tulane). Latin American Politics and Society 53.2 (Summer 2011), 181-184 (scroll to p. 181).

7. Jayaraj, Dhairiyarayar (Madras Institute of Development Studies). The Developing Economies 49.2 (June 2011), 230-232.

8. Lo, Ming-Cheng (University of California, Davis), Contemporary Sociology 40.5 (September 2011), 607-608.

9. Gómez, Eduardo J. (Rutgers). Comparative Political Studies 44.9 (September 2011), 1298-1300.