The length of life and the standard of living: Economic influences on premature death in China
研究中国农村过早死亡的决定因素，发现收入与死亡率负相关，并探讨了1950年代以来过早死亡率下降的原因，涉及收入、医疗政策和集体组织的作用。
A detailed survey of mortality is used to analyse the determinants of premature death in rural China. Premature death is found to be inversely related to income: higher income in a county reduces its mortality rate, ceteris paribus. The inverse relationship is found for most major illnesses, and might be explained by the large element of self‐reliance in the funding of health care expenditures in China, both at the household and the local levels. These and other results are used to address the basic question: why has there been a remarkable decline in premature mortality in China since the early 1950s? The contributions of income, of deliberate health care policies and of collective organisation are examined.