At around 17/5/06 7:03 pm, Jim Devine wrote: > Ulhas: > > > What were life expectancies in Cuba in 1959? > > I quoted: >> > the full commitment to health care by the state, the planned economy, >> > In 1959 the infant mortality rate was 60/1000 >> > live births and life expectancy was 65.1 years. > > Ulhas: >> Life expectancy in India has improved from 35 to 65 in 50 years. > > that was mostly during the "socialist" period (before neo-liberalism), > wasn't it? or when was it? and isn't 50 years longer than the period > since 1959 (the Cuban revolution), the original period of comparison > that you wanted to look at? >
We went through all this about a year ago [?] on LBO. I am quoting from a response from me to Sujeet: http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20050808/017080.html > life expectancy: > 1955-1980 +36% > 1980-2005 +21% > > an actual decrease in the rate? in fact, looking at the graph, it looks > like the greatest life expectancy improvement came in the period > 1955-1970. of course squeezing out each extra year of life gets more > difficult (a logarithmic curve?) given the limits of the human body and > medicine. but we are not in the miracle territory here. IIRC, life > expectancy in cuba (hardly a neo-liberal paradise) is higher than the > 64 years that india currently offers its citizens. --ravi -- Support something better than yourself: ;-) PeTA: http://www.peta.org/ GreenPeace: http://www.greenpeace.org/
