Differential mortality : methodological issues and biosocial factors /
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| Imprint: | Oxford, [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. |
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| Description: | viii, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International studies in demography |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/944472 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Contributors
- Part I. Introduction
- Problems and Issues in the Study of Mortality Differentials
- Part II. Methodological Issues
- 1. Conceptual Frameworks and Causal Modelling
- References
- 2. The Integration of Demographic and Epidemiologic Approaches to Studies of Health in Developing Countries
- 3. Some Methodological Issues in the Assessment of the Deceleration of the Mortality Decline
- References
- 4. Measures of Preventable Deaths in Developing Countries: Some Methodological Issues and Approaches
- Part III. Biological and Social Factors
- 5. Changing Trends in Mortality Decline during the Last Decades
- Appendix 5.1.
- Appendix 5.2. Sources Of Data
- 6. Trends in Socio-economic Differentials in Infant Mortality in Selected Latin American Countries
- References
- 7. Socio-economic Differentials in Infant and Child Mortality in Indonesia in the 1970s: Trends, Causes, and Implications
- References
- 8. Determinants of Child Mortality in Turkey
- 9. Effects of Inter-birth Intervals on Infant and Early Childhood Mortality
- References
- 10. Mortality and Health Dynamics at Older Ages
- Part IV. Crisis Mortality
- 11. Crisis Mortality: Extinction and Near- extinction of Human Populations
- References
- 12. Famine in China 1959-61: Demographic and Social Implications
- Index