CiNii 図書 - The decline of infant and child mortality : the European experience, 1750-1990

Of the many changes that have taken place in Western society during the past two centuries, few have been more significant than the steep fall in infant and child mortality. However, the timing and causes of the decline are still poorly understood. While some scholars attribute it to general improvements in living standards, others emphasize the role of social intervention and public health reforms. Written by specialists from several disciplinary fields, the twelve essays in this book break entirely new ground by providing a long-term perspective that challenges some deep-rooted ideas about the European experience of mortality decline and may help explain the forces and causal relationships behind the still tragic incidence of preventable infant and child deaths in many parts of the world today. This book will become a standard work for students and researchers in demography, social and economic history, population geography, and the history of medicine, and it will be of interest to anyone concerned with current debates on the policies to be adopted to curb infant and child mortality in both developed and developing countries.

Introduction: Recent Advances and Some Open Questions in the Long-Term Study of Infant and Child Mortality
C.A. Corsini, P.P. Viazzo. 1. Infant Health and Infant Mortality in Europe: Lessons from the Past and Challenges for the Future
G. Masuy-Stroobant. 2. Assessing Change in Historical Contexts: Childhood Mortality Patterns in Spain During the Demographic Transition
D.S. Reher, et al 3. Differential Mortality Patterns among Infants and Other Young Children: The Experience of England and Wales in the Nineteenth Century
R. Woods, et al. 4. Gender Mortality Differences from Birth to Puberty, 1887-1940
A. Pinnelli, P. Mancini. 5. Infant Mortality in French Cities in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
P. Bourdelais, M. Demonet. 6. Urbanization, Infant Mortality and Public Health in Imperial Germany
J. Voegele. 7. Locality or Class? Spatial and Social Differentials in Infant and Child Mortality in England and Wales, 1895-1911
A. Reid. 8. Infant Mortality in Greece, 1859-1959: Problems and Research Perspectives
V. Hionidou. 9. Life Histories of Lone Parents and Illegitimate Children in Nineteenth-Century Sweden
A. Brandstoem. 10. Mortality among Illegitimate Children in Mid-Nineteenth Century The Hague
J. Kok, et al. 11. Childhood Mortality in High-Risk Groups: Some Methodological Reflections Based on French Experience
C. Rollet. 12. A Special Case of Decline: Levels and Trends of Infant Mortality at Florence's Foundling Hospital, 1750-1950
P.P. Viazzo, et al. Index.

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