Aging process of population /
Aging Process of Population investigates and analyzes the phenomenon of population aging. The text aims to provide a quantitative and qualitative analyses of structural transformations caused by the aging population on modern societies in various parts of the world. The book is organized into four p...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Polaco |
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Oxford ; New York :
Pergamon Press,
1964.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover; Aging Process of Population; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; PART I: METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. Measures of Old Age; 1. The Coefficient of Old Age; 2. Other Conceptions of Measures of Old Age; 3. Auxiliary Characteristics of Age Structure; References; CHAPTER 2. HYPOTHETICAL AND PERSPECTIVE CALCULATIONSAS A TOOL TO ANALYSE CHANGES IN THE AGE STRUCTURE OF THE POPULATION; 1. Purely Hypothetical Computations; 2. Demographic Forecasts; References; CHAPTER 3. DIFFERENT TYPES OF AGE STRUCTURES; References
- CHAPTER 4. DEFICIENCIES AND LACK OF METHODOLOGICAL UNIFORMITY OF SOURCE MATERIALS AND THE RESULTING DIFFICULTIES IN COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS1. Deficiencies in Age Statistics; 2. Range and Level of the Statistical Civilization; 3. Variety of Organization and Methodology of Population Censuses; 4. The Value of Census Materials concerning the Age of the Population; 5. Soundings and Surveys in Place of Population Censuses; References; PART II: OLD AGE AND THE FREQUENCY OF SURVIVING TO THIS AGE; CHAPTER 5. THE BEGINNING OF OLD AGE; 1. Introduction; 2. The Ancient Chinese Classification
- 3. The Classification of Pythagoras4. The Classification of Hippocrates; 5. The Classification of Flourens; 6. The Classification of Rubner; 7. The Classification of Aschoff; 8. The Classification of English Physiologists; 9. The Classification of German Anthropologists; 10. The Classification of Bochenek; 11. Views of Soviet Gerontologists; 12. Summary; 13. The Classification of Farr; 14. The Classification of American Physicians; 15. Classifications Used in Statistical Practice and Their Variants; 16. Conclusions; References
- CHAPTER 6. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE NUMBEROF PERSONS SURVIVING TO OLD AGE1. Introduction; 2. Prehistoric and Early Historical Times; 3. The Middle Ages; 4. Order of Dying in the Light of the First Life Tables; 5. The Situation in the 18th Century; 6. Increase in the Number of Persons surviving to Old Age in the 19th Century; 7. Before the First World War; 8. The Situation between the Two World Wars; 9. After the Second World War; 10. Demographic Forecasts; References; CHAPTER 7. THE NORMAL LENGTH OF HUMAN LIFE; 1. Method of Computing Normal Length of Life
- 2. Evolution of Normal Duration of Life3. Number of Deaths at Normal Age; Reference; PART III:POPULATION AGING TRENDS; CHAPTER 8. POPULATION STRUCTURE BY AGE IN DIFFERENT TIME PERIODS; 1. The Earliest Period (about 1850); 2. The Years 1861-75; 3. At the Turn of the Century; 4. Before the First World War; 5. Before the Second World War; 6. After the Second World War; 7. Most Recent Statistical Data of the U.N.; 8. Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 9. THE EVOLUTION OF THE AGE STRUCTURE OF THE POPULATION IN SOME COUNTRIES; 1. The Evolution in the Age Structure of the French Population