Poverty and life expectancy: the Jamaica paradox
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Cambridge, UK [u.a.]
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2005
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Tables, Figures, and Illustrations viii
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
Introduction i
i. A Singularly Blessed Island n
x. What Needs to be Explained? 21
3. The Situation Around 1920 48
4. Rapid Gains in Life Expectancy: 1920 1950 73
5. The Good Years: 1950 1972 134
6. Against Growing Odds: 1972 2000 160
7. Conclusion 188
appendix 1. Estimates of Life Expectancy, 1881 1964 197
appendix 2. Official Sources for Quantitative Information
to 1964 202
Bibliography 205
Index 2.27
vii
LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES, AND
ILLUSTRATIONS
TABLES
1.1 Fifteen countries with low incomes and high life
expectancies in 2000 13
2. 1 The pace of the early health transitions 22
2.2 Distribution of the population by racial and edinic
groups, 1844 1960 24
2.3 Income and life expectancy in six countries, 1870 1998 35
2.4 Ten leading causes of death in Jamaica, 1881 1920,
among certified deaths 40
2.5 Leading causes of death in 1896 97 41
2.6 Age distribution of all deaths and deaths from leading
causes, 1896 97 42
2.7 Leading causes of death in 19x0 22 43
2.8 Leading disease categories and the decline of mortality
in Jamaica, 1920 90 44
3.1 Selections from McFarlane s Hints on Hygiene 53
3.2 Schedule of infectious diseases 56
4.1 Age specific death rates, 1920 22 and 1949 51 74
4.2 Per capita GDP, 1910 50 76
5.1 Age specific death rates in 1949 51 and 1970 135
5.2 Leading certified causes of death in 1950 and 1970 136
5.3 Death rates in Jamaica and the United States in 1950 137
5.4 Two estimates of GDP per capita, 1950 2000 142
6.1 Age specific death rates, 1970 and 2000 162
6.2 Deaths from certain causes as a share of all certified
deaths, 1970 99 163
viii
LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES, AND ILLUSTRATIONS
A.i Annual estimates of life expectancy at birth, 1881 1964 198
A.2 Official estimates of life expectancy at birth 200
FIGURES
1.1 Life expectancy and per capita income in 2000 in
167 countries 12
2.1 Life expectancy in Jamaica, 1881 2000 27
2.2 Infant mortality, 1879 2000 28
2.3 Mortality curves in four periods, 1879 2000 30
2.4 Life expectancy in Jamaica and Trinidad, 1900 2000 31
2.5 Life expectancy in three countries 32
2.6 Life expectancy in Jamaica and the United States 33
2.7 Life expectancy for males in Jamaica and Russia 33
2.8 Mortality in Kingston from certain diseases, 1920 1956 46
3.1 Per capita GDP and consumption, 1832 1930 68
4.1 Spending on health and education as a share of all
government spending, 1867 2000 79
4.2 People per registered doctor, 1895 1972 80
4.3 Illiteracy in 1943 108
4.4 Primary school enrollments and attendance, 1868 1960 109
5.1 Malaria, fever, and tuberculosis mortality, 1930—64 136
5.2 Two estimates of GDP per capita, 1950 2000 143
5.3 Government expenditures as a share of GDP in Jamaica,
the United Kingdom, and the United States 144
5.4 Primary school enrollments and attendance, 1950 77 151
5.5 The birth rate, 1879 2000 157
6.1 Per capita GDP overlaying government spending as a
share of GDP 164
6.2 Annual change in consumer prices in Jamaica and the
United States, 1961 2000 166
6.3 Income distribution in four countries, 1945 2000 171
ILLUSTRATIONS
Frontpiece. Jamaica s Parishes and Cities
3.1a Images of good and bad latrines from McFarlane s
Hints on Hygiene 54
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LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES, AND ILLUSTRATIONS
3.1b Images of good and bad latrines from McFarlane s
Hints on Hygiene, pp. 95 96 55
3.2a Four illustrations of housing in the 1920s: A typical
village home 64
3.2b Four illustrations of housing in the 1920s: Home
classed as good 65
3.2c Four illustrations of housing in the 1920s: Home
classed as bad 66
3.2d Four illustrations of housing in the 1920s: Home
classed as bad 67
4.1 An existing, and unsatisfactory, latrine 85
4.2 An improved latrine 86
4.3 a Sounding (i.e., listening with a stethoscope) 92
4.3b Taking hookworm medicine 93
4.4 Five men dusting with Paris green to kill mosquito
larvae from a boat named Maladie 96
4.5 House in Kingston with a shed added for a household
member with tuberculosis 99
4.6 Graduates of the fourth session of the School for
Sanitary Inspectors, 1929, with instructors 114
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