Fatal years : child mortality in late nineteenth-century America /

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Fatal Years is the first systematic study of child mortality in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Exploiting newly discovered data from the 1900 Census of Population, Samuel Preston and Michael Haines present their findings in a volume that is not only a pioneering work of demography...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Preston, Samuel H. (Autor), Haines, Michael R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991]
Colección:NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
Temas:
1800-1899
Children > Mortality > United States > History > 19th century.
Enfants > Mortalité > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Demography.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Children > Mortality
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • ONE. THE SOCIAL AND MEDICAL CONTEXT OF CHILD MORTALITY IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
  • TWO. NEW ESTIMATES OF CHILD MORTALITY DURING THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
  • THREE. DIFFERENCES IN CHILD MORTALITY AMONG SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND RESIDENTIAL GROUPS
  • FOUR. DISTINGUISHING THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF VARIOUS SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND RESIDENTIAL FACTORS
  • FIVE. AMERICAN CHILD MORTALITY DIFFERENTIALS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
  • SIX. YESTERDAY AND TODAY: RESTATEMENT OF A MAIN THEME
  • APPENDIX A. ASSIGNING INCOME AND UNEMPLOYMENT ESTIMATES TO INDIVIDUALS IN THE NATIONAL SAMPLE OF THE 1900 UNITED STATES CENSUS
  • APPENDIX B. THE STATE EARNINGS INDEX
  • APPENDIX C. THE MORTALITY INDEX
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX BY AUTHOR.

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