Rising life expectancy :
Riley, James C.
Rising life expectancy : a global history / James C. Riley. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. - xii, 243 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A brief overview of the health transition -- Public health -- Medicine -- Wealth, income, and economic development -- Famine, malnutrition, and diet -- Households and individuals -- Literacy and education. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
"Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about thirty years to a global average of sixty-seven years, and to more than seventy-five years in favored countries. This dramatic change, called the health transition, is characterized by a transition in how long people expected to live and in how they expected to die. The most common age at death jumped from infancy to old age. Most people lived to know their children as adults, and most children became acquainted with their grandparents. Whereas earlier people died chiefly from infectious diseases with a short course, by later decades they died from chronic diseases, often with a protracted course. The ranks of people living in their most economically productive years filled out, and the old became commonplace figures everywhere. Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History examines the way humans reduced risks to their survival, both regionally and globally, to promote world population growth and population aging."--Jacket.
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Sozialgeschichte 1735-1995.
Sozialgeschichte 1735-1995
Life expectancy.
Esp erance de vie.
74.92 mortality (demography)
15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
Life expectancy.
Lebenserwartung
Levensverwachting.
Bevolkingsontwikkeling.
Life Expectancy--trends.
Health Transition.
Public Health--history.
History of Medicine.
HB1322.3 / .R55 2001
304.6/45
2001 I-680 WT 116 / R573r 2001
Rising life expectancy : a global history / James C. Riley. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. - xii, 243 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A brief overview of the health transition -- Public health -- Medicine -- Wealth, income, and economic development -- Famine, malnutrition, and diet -- Households and individuals -- Literacy and education. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
"Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about thirty years to a global average of sixty-seven years, and to more than seventy-five years in favored countries. This dramatic change, called the health transition, is characterized by a transition in how long people expected to live and in how they expected to die. The most common age at death jumped from infancy to old age. Most people lived to know their children as adults, and most children became acquainted with their grandparents. Whereas earlier people died chiefly from infectious diseases with a short course, by later decades they died from chronic diseases, often with a protracted course. The ranks of people living in their most economically productive years filled out, and the old became commonplace figures everywhere. Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History examines the way humans reduced risks to their survival, both regionally and globally, to promote world population growth and population aging."--Jacket.
0521802458 9780521802451 0521002818 9780521002813 9780521850476 0521850479
\\050242
GBA153759 bnb GBA1-53759
101123708 DNLM
Sozialgeschichte 1735-1995.
Sozialgeschichte 1735-1995
Life expectancy.
Esp erance de vie.
74.92 mortality (demography)
15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
Life expectancy.
Lebenserwartung
Levensverwachting.
Bevolkingsontwikkeling.
Life Expectancy--trends.
Health Transition.
Public Health--history.
History of Medicine.
HB1322.3 / .R55 2001
304.6/45
2001 I-680 WT 116 / R573r 2001