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New Approaches to Death in Cities during the Health Transition

This book presents recent efforts and new approaches to improve our understanding of the evolution of health and mortality in urban environments in the long run, looking at transformation and adaptations during the process of rapid population growth. In a world characterized by large and rapidly evo...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ramiro Fariñas, Diego (Editor), Oris, Michel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2016, 2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016
Series:International Studies in Population
Subjects:
Sociology, Urban
Public Health
Population And Demography
Demography
Population
Urban Sociology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • New approaches to death in the cities during the health transition. An introduction: Michel Oris, Diego Ramiro Farinas
  • Mortality within the city: historical Europe: Understanding infant mortality in the city: exploring registration and compositional effects. Madrid, 1905-1906: Barbara A. Revuelta Eugercios, Diego Ramiro Farinas
  • Environment, housing, and infant mortality: Udine, 1807-1815: Alessio Fornasin, Marco Breschi, Matteo Manfredini
  • Residential mobility and child mortality in early twentieth century Belfast: Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett, Simon Szreter
  • Micro-analysis of mortality in urban areas. The parish of Oliveira in Guimaraes between the 18th and 20th century: Norberta Amorim, Antero Ferreira, Luis Machado
  • Urban mortality in transition: Infant and childhood mortality in a context of transitional fertility. Geneva 1800-1900: Reto Schumacher
  • A slow transition. Infant and child mortality decline in a Sardinian community: Alghero (1866-1935): Marco Breschi, MassimoEsposito, Stanislao Mazzoni, Lucia Pozzi
  • The democratization of longevity: how the poor became old. Paris, 1870-1940: Lionel Kesztenbaum, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
  • Urban mortality in the developing world: Estimating effects over time of influences on urban health outcomes: a longitudinal multilevel epidemiological investigation: Barthélémy Kuate Defo
  • Will urban and rural mortality converge in Africa?: Michel Garenne
  • Urban mortality transition: the role of slums: Günther Fink, Isabel Günther, Kenneth Hill
  • Health disparities at the periphery of Ouagadougou: Clémentine Rossier, Abdramane Soura, Bruno Lankoande, Roch Millogo

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