Modernization and Health in Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Phillips, Daphne Ethlyn

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ross, C.,

• Health Sciences, Public Health
• Sociology, Public and Social Welfare

Identifier

(UMI)AAI9314927

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/72476