Rising life expectancy : a global history / James C. Riley.

By:

Riley, James C

Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.Description: xii, 243 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0521802458
9780521802451
0521002818
9780521002813
9780521850476
0521850479

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

304.6/45 21

LOC classification:

HB1322.3 .R55 2001

NLM classification:

2001 I-680
WT 116

Other classification:

74.92
15.50
QF 500
C913
C921
RB 10543

Online resources:

Contents:

1. A brief overview of the health transition -- 2. Public health -- 3. Medicine -- 4. Wealth, income, and economic development -- 5. Famine, malnutrition, and diet -- 6. Households and individuals -- 7. Literacy and education.

Action note:

Self-Renewing 2017

Summary: "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.Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.

Self-Renewing 2017 UoY

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