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.
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"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
"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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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.
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In some places and times before 1800 life expectancy at birth may have reached or even slightly surpassed forty years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sickness prevalence, health transition, filth theory, formal practitioners, epidemiologic transition, mortality crises, public health improvements, disease avoidance, mortality decline, survival prospects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Population Studies, Latin America, Human Development Report, World War, Sri Lanka, World Bank, Third World, United Kingdom, United Nations Development Programme, Costa Rica, Health Transition Review, John Caldwell, Demographic Transition, English Population History, Family Reconstitution, New Delhi, Robert Koch, Social Science History, Amartya Sen, Angus Maddison, Behavioural Determinants of Health, Papua New Guinea, Social History of Medicine New!
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In some places and times before 1800 life expectancy at birth may have reached or even slightly surpassed forty years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sickness prevalence, health transition, filth theory, formal practitioners, epidemiologic transition, mortality crises, public health improvements, disease avoidance, mortality decline, survival prospects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Population Studies, Latin America, Human Development Report, World War, Sri Lanka, World Bank, Third World, United Kingdom, United Nations Development Programme, Costa Rica, Health Transition Review, John Caldwell, Demographic Transition, English Population History, Family Reconstitution, New Delhi, Robert Koch, Social Science History, Amartya Sen, Angus Maddison, Behavioural Determinants of Health, Papua New Guinea, Social History of Medicine New!
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- Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries by Dean T. Jamison in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- The Decline of Mortality in Europe (International Studies in Demography) by R. Schofield in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 84
- Pig Iron, No. 15: Third World by Jim Villani on page 77, page 110, and page 177
- Sri Lanka (Let's Visit Series) by John C. Caldwell on page 112, page 132, and page 135
- The Cambridge World History of Human Disease by Kenneth F. Kiple on page 99, page 121, and page 194
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- Poverty and Life Expectancy: The Jamaica Paradox by James C. Riley in Front Matter, page 53, and Back Matter
- A History of Medicine, Second Edition by Lois N. Magner on page 540, and page 590
- Return of the "L" Word: A Liberal Vision for the New Century by Douglas S. Massey on page 188
- The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil in Back Matter
- Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice by Daniel Callahan in Back Matter
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