Format:
Online-Ressource (384 p.)
ISBN:
9780632059836
Content:
This exciting and important book covers the impact on demography of the nutrition of populations, offering the view that the change from the hunter-gatherer to an agricultural life-style had a major impact on human demography, which still has repercussions today. Demography and Nutrition takes an interdisciplinary approach, involving time-series analyses, mathematical modelling, aggregative analysis and family reconstitution as well as analysis of data series from Third World countries in the 20th Century. Contents include details and analysis of mortality oscillations, food supplies, famines
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Description based upon print version of record
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Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Mortality Oscillations in 404 English Parishes - a Metapopulation Study; Chapter 3 The Staple Food Supply: Fluctuating Wheat Prices and Malnutrition; Chapter 4 Famine; Chapter 5 Long-term Demographic Effects of even a Small Famine; Chapter 6 Fertility; Chapter 7 Nutrition and Pregnancy; Chapter 8 Infancy; Chapter 9 Infant Mortality; Chapter 10 Exogenous Cycles: A Case Study; Chapter 11 The Amelioration of Infant Mortality in Rural England; Chapter 12 Iodine Deficiency and Endogenous Mortality; Chapter 13 Seasonality; Chapter 14 Sex Ratios
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Chapter 15 Childhood Mortality and Infectious DiseasesChapter 16 Population Dynamics, Disease and Malnutrition in the Nineteenth Century in England; Chapter 17 Ageing; Chapter 18 Conclusions; Appendix; References; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780470777459
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780632059836
Additional Edition:
Print version Demography and Nutrition : Evidence from Historical and Contemporary Populations
Language:
English
Keywords:
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