"James Riley has crowned decades of work on the improvement of health with a splendid book that is engagingly written and accessible to all. It is a guide to the national achievement of better health and greater longevity. Hopefully, this book will help change the world."--John C. Caldwell, Emeritus Professor of Demography, Australian National University, Canberra "James Riley's "Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health" represents another major contribution to the understanding of the world-wide mortality transition of ...
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"James Riley has crowned decades of work on the improvement of health with a splendid book that is engagingly written and accessible to all. It is a guide to the national achievement of better health and greater longevity. Hopefully, this book will help change the world."--John C. Caldwell, Emeritus Professor of Demography, Australian National University, Canberra "James Riley's "Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health" represents another major contribution to the understanding of the world-wide mortality transition of the past two centuries. Based upon extensive research, this book is important for historians and epidemiologists, as well as central to current policy debates, because of its demonstrations of the many factors that have influenced better health in addition to economic growth and new medications."--Stanley Engerman, John H. Munro Professor of Economics and History, University of Rochester
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 248 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public, 17.
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