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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 13:19:21 -0500
To: ppn@csf.colorado.edu
From: Richard Cincotta <cincotta@popact.org>
Subject: Re: Class and Mortality
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To: Martha (& PPN list):

Speaking of the JAMA article, there was also an excellent article in
Scientific American a few years back by Amartya Sen that featured similar
(though less statistically-derived) conclusions. The article is entitled: 

"The Economics of Life and Death" (A. Sen, May 1993, Scientific American)

(If I remember right) Sen proposed that international organizations
evaluate quality of life by looking at current survivorship curves.  It was
a great article, and very revealing -- He compared male and female
survivorship in Kerala, India with trends in African Americans.  (African
Americans came up short).