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- catalog abstract ""Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about thirty years to a global average of sixty-seven years, and to more than seventy-five years in favored countries. This dramatic change, called the health transition, is characterized by a transition in how long people expected to live and in how they expected to die. The most common age at death jumped from infancy to old age. Most people lived to know their children as adults, and most children became acquainted with their grandparents. Whereas earlier people died chiefly from infectious diseases with a short course, by later decades they died from chronic diseases, often with a protracted course. The ranks of people living in their most economically productive years filled out, and the old became commonplace figures everywhere. Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History examines the way humans reduced risks to their survival, both regionally and globally, to promote world population growth and population aging."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12162174.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about thirty years to a global average of sixty-seven years, and to more than seventy-five years in favored countries. This dramatic change, called the health transition, is characterized by a transition in how long people expected to live and in how they expected to die. The most common age at death jumped from infancy to old age. Most people lived to know their children as adults, and most children became acquainted with their grandparents. Whereas earlier people died chiefly from infectious diseases with a short course, by later decades they died from chronic diseases, often with a protracted course.".
- catalog description "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 individuals -- 7. Literacy and education.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The ranks of people living in their most economically productive years filled out, and the old became commonplace figures everywhere. Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History examines the way humans reduced risks to their survival, both regionally and globally, to promote world population growth and population aging."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xii, 243 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521002818 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0521802458".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "2001 I-680".
- catalog subject "304.6/45 21".
- catalog subject "HB1322.3 .R55 2001".
- catalog subject "Health Transition.".
- catalog subject "History of Medicine.".
- catalog subject "Life Expectancy trends.".
- catalog subject "Life expectancy.".
- catalog subject "Public Health history.".
- catalog subject "WT 116 R573r 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 individuals -- 7. Literacy and education.".
- catalog title "Rising life expectancy : a global history / James C. Riley.".
- catalog type "text".