Demography and Nutrition: Evidence from Historical and Contemporary Populations - Couverture rigide

Scott, Susan; Duncan, Christopher J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0632059834 ISBN 13 : 9780632059836

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

Synopsis

This exciting and important book covers the impact on demography of the nutrition of populations, offering the view that the change from the hunter-gatherer to an agricultural life-style had a major impact on human demography, which still has repercussions today.

Demography and Nutrition takes an interdisciplinary approach, involving time-series analyses, mathematical modelling, aggregative analysis and family reconstitution as well as analysis of data series from Third World countries in the 20th Century. Contents include details and analysis of mortality oscillations, food supplies, famines, fertility and pregnancy, infancy and infant mortality, ageing, infectious diseases, and population dynamics.

The authors, both well known internationally for their work in these areas, have a great deal of experience of population data gathering and analysis. Within the book, they develop the thesis that malnutrition, from which the bulk of the population suffered, was the major factor that regulated demography in historical times, its controlling effect operated via the mother before, during and after pregnancy.

Demography and Nutrition contains a vast wealth of fascinating and vital information and as such is essential reading for a wide range of health professionals including nutritionists, dietitians, public health and community workers. Historians, social scientists, geographers and all those involved in work on demography will find this book to be of great use and interest. Libraries in all university departments, medical schools and research establishments should have copies of this landmark publication available on their shelves.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Susan Scott is a Social Historian specialising in demography. She has written 30 published papers and three books.

Professor Christopher Duncan is Emeritus Professor of Zoology at Liverpool University. He has written over 200 published papers and seven books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0632059834
• ISBN 13: 9780632059836
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible