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Health Behavior in Developing Countries

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Handbook of Health Behavior Research III

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The distinction between developed and developing countries has become increasingly blurred as many less developed countries make important strides in social conditions as well as economic development. While it long has been recognized that the nations of the world do not fall neatly into two categories of “more” and “less” developed, but instead extend across a wide continuum of socioeconomic diversity, only recently have observers noted that health and quality of life indicators can be quite variable within countries traditionally considered underdeveloped (Pillai & Shannon, 1995). Some very poor countries have made remarkable improvements in the health of their populations, while comparatively wealthier nations have not fared so well (Caldwell, 1990). It is common to find a fourfold typology by which nations are classified as least developed, less developed, newly industrialized, and developed.

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Coreil, J. (1997). Health Behavior in Developing Countries. In: Gochman, D.S. (eds) Handbook of Health Behavior Research III. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1757-7_9

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