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A history of population health : rise and fall of disease in Europe /
"In A History of Population Health Johan P. Mackenbach offers a broad-sweeping study of the spectacular changes in people's health in Europe since the early 18th century. Most of the 40 specific diseases covered in this book show a fascinating pattern of 'rise-and-fall', with lar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill | Rodopi,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Clio medica,
volume 101 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- List of illustrations
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Utopia come true?
- Rising life expectancy
- The rise and fall of disease
- The epidemiologic transition theory
- The McKeown debate and the Preston-curve
- The role of human agency
- &;How to read this book
- Concepts, sources, data and methods
- PART I. LONG-TERM TRENDS: A BIRD'S EYE VIEW
- Chapter 2. Long-term trends in population health
- Changes in over-all population health
- Declining mortality
- Young and old, men and women
- Regional and social inequalities
- Rising height
- More years in good health, more years in bad health?
- Changes in disease patterns
- Shifting causes of death
- Shifts in the burden of disease
- Diseases rise, diseases fall
- Epidemiologic transition 2.0
- A theory in need of repair
- How: characterizing change
- When: staging change
- Where: locating change
- Chapter 3. Understanding trends in population health
- Theories of population health
- An 'ecological-evolutionary theory' of the origins of disease
- Explaining long-term change
- Economic, political and sociocultural conditions
- Economic history: improvements in living standards
- Political history: the rise of the modern state
- Sociocultural history: the lights go on
- Public health and medical care
- A short history of public health
- The impact of public health
- A short history of medical care
- The Role of Medicine
- PART II. ZOOMING IN: THE RISE AND FALL OF DISEASES
- Chapter 4. Health problems of pre-industrial societies
- Violence and hunger
- War
- Homicide
- Famine
- Great epidemics
- Plague
- Smallpox
- Typhus
- Malaria
- Chapter 5. Health problems of industrializing societies
- Communicable diseases
- Cholera, dysentery, typhoid
- Tuberculosis
- Syphilis
- Scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria
- Pneumonia, influenza
- Maternal, infant and perinatal mortality
- Maternal mortality
- Infant mortality
- Still-births
- Other health problems of industrializing societies
- Pellagra, rickets, goitre
- Peptic ulcer, appendicitis
- Lung diseases caused by occupational and environmental exposures
- Chapter 6. Health problems of affluent societies
- Chronic diseases
- Ischaemic heart disease
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Diabetes mellitus
- Stomach, colorectal, breast, prostate cancer
- Lung cancer
- Liver cirrhosis
- Dementia
- Depression
- Injuries
- Road traffic injuries
- Suicide
- A new plague
- AIDS
- PART III: SYNTHESIS AND OUTLOOK
- Chapter 7. Why?
- Why did European population health improve?
- The rise and fall of disease
- The role of human agency
- The role of public health and medical care
- The Rise of the West: was there a 'prime mover'?
- Why did some countries rush ahead or lag behind?
- Northern lights: the Swedish advantage
- Dutch comfort: we were the champions
- Southern miracles: from rear-guard to forefront
- Balkan troubles: the weight of the past
- Russian roulette: the value of life
- Chapter 8. Outlook
- Feathers of Icarus
- Geopolitical instability
- Increasing inequality
- Global environmental change
- The way ahead
- The public health paradigm
- An expanding circle of concern
- Re-thinking Utopia
- By way of conclusion
- Through the telescope of history
- The European experience
- The role of politics
- The future
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.