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Infant mortality : a continuing social problem /

Commemorating 100 years since the publication of Sir George Newman's 'Infant Mortality: A Social Problem', this volume evaluates Newman's critical contribution, reviews current understandings of the history of infant and early childhood mortality and discusses modern approaches t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Garrett, Eilidh
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Infant mortality : a social problem? / Eilidh Garrett [and others]
  • George Newman--a life in public health / Chris Galley
  • Newman's Infant mortality as an agenda for research / Robert Woods
  • Place and status as determinants of infant mortality in England c.1550-1837 / Richard Smith and Jim Oeppen
  • A double penalty? : infant mortality in the Lincolnshire Fens, 1870-1900 / Sam Sneddon
  • Infant mortality in Northamptonshire : a vaccination register study / Tricia James
  • Urban-rural differences in infant mortality : a view from the death registers of Skye and Kilmarnock, Scotland / Eilidh Garrett.
  • Diarrhoea : the central issue? / Eric Hall and Michael Drake
  • Infant mortality, a spatial problem : Notting Dale Special area in George Newman's London / Graham Mooney and Andrea Tanner
  • Health visitors and 'enlightened motherhood' / Alice Reid
  • Infant mortality and social progress in Britain, 1905-2005 / Danny Dorling
  • The health of infants at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Yvonne Kelly
  • Conclusion : the social dimension of infant well-being / Nicola Shelton.