Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History / Edition 1

by James C. Riley

Overview

Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change was called a health transition, characterized by a transition both in how long people expected to live, and how they expected to die. Rising Life Expectancy examines the way humans reduced risks to their survival, both regionally and globally, to promote world population growth and population aging.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521002813
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/04/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

1. A brief overview of the health transition; 2. Public health; 3. Medicine; 4. Wealth, income, and economic development; 5. Famine, malnutrition, and diet; 6. Households and individual behavior; 7. Literacy and education.

Editorial Reviews

"This book is a fine example of quality interdisciplinary research designed for a general audience, drawing on work from several fields to inform its conclusions...a well-researched, accessible, and well-written introduction to the health transition." Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"Rising Life Expectancy is an excellent source book for the latest research on the global health transition." Journal of World History, George Dehner, Northeastern University

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