Modernization and Health in Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil
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description: Improved health, declines in mortality and morbidity and extension of life expectancy have all been positively associated with development in industrial countries within the last century, through improved nutrition, sanitation, better housing, improved conditions of work, income, education, public health and similar factors. In Brazil, the modernization process of the mid 1960s to 1980s resulted in a decline in these structural factors for the vast majority of the population. Decline in living conditions, in turn, affect health. Estimates indicate that mortality among some age groups may have increased.
abstract: Improved health, declines in mortality and morbidity and extension of life expectancy have all been positively associated with development in industrial countries within the last century, through improved nutrition, sanitation, better housing, improved conditions of work, income, education, public health and similar factors. In Brazil, the modernization process of the mid 1960s to 1980s resulted in a decline in these structural factors for the vast majority of the population. Decline in living conditions, in turn, affect health. Estimates indicate that mortality among some age groups may have increased.
author: Phillips, Daphne Ethlyn
keywords: Health Sciences, Public Health, Sociology, Public and Social Welfare
date published: 2014-12-17T22:55:08Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:26:06Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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