Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - The Decline of mortality in Europe

MAP20070009371

The Decline of mortality in Europe / edited by R. Schofield, D. Reher, A. Bideau. — Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1991

XIV, 270 p. : graf. ; 24 cm . — (International studies in demography)

Sumario: I.The decline of mortality in Europe -- II. The attenuation of mortality crises and the decline of mortality -- III. Mortality in Europe from 1720 to 1914: long-term trends and changes in patterns by age and sex -- IV. Health transition and cause-specific mortality -- V. Tuberculosis and the decline of mortality in Sweden -- VI. Cholera: a victory for medicine? -- VII. Nutrition, immunity, and infection -- VIII. Medicine and the decline of mortality: indicators of nutritional status -- IX. Housing and the decline of mortality -- X. Conditions of work and decline of mortality -- XI. The care of children: the influence of medical innovation and medical institutions on infant mortality 1750-1914 -- XII. Pasteur, pasteurization, and Medicine -- XIII. Public hearly twenteith centurieslth and public hygiene: environment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- XIV. The personal physician and the decline of mortality

ISBN 0-19-828328-8

1. Demografía . 2. Medicina . 3. Salud pública . 4. Mortalidad . I. Schofield, R. . II. Reher, D. . III. Bideau, A. . IV. International studies in demography . V. Title.

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