ABSTRACT
I’ve chosen to focus on a mixture of countries around the world in this book, and they are a mixture of developing, emerging and developed economies: China, India, Japan, the USA, the UK, Sweden, Italy, Greece, South Africa and Australia. Two 190perspectives are necessary when linking health, wealth and longevity. First, for developing countries the least they need to do is provide housing, clean water, security (personal, tribal and national), education and transparency. Second, much of the literature on longevity derives from developed countries where the basic bar of living long enough to die of old age has driven both an academic interest in living long, happy lives and an economic drive to sell pharmaceutical and other products to an ageing population.
