Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lancaster, H. O

Titel

Expectations of Life : A Study in the Demography, Statistics, and History of World Mortality

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY : Springer New York

Erscheinungsjahr

1990

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 1 Mortality and the Evolution of Society -- 2 Identification and Classification of Diseases -- 3 Measurement of Mortality -- 4 Dynamics of Population Growth -- 5 Infectious Diseases -- 6 Intestinal Infectious Diseases -- 7 Tuberculosis -- 8 Zoonotic Bacterial Diseases -- 9 Other Bacterial Diseases -- 10 Diseases due to Viruses and Chlamydias -- 11 Viral Diseases Accompanied by Exanthem -- 12 Arthropod-borne Viral Diseases -- 13 Miscellaneous Diseases due to Viruses and Chlamydias -- 14 Rickettsioses -- 15 Malaria -- 16 Other Arthropod-borne Diseases -- 17 Syphilis and Other Venereal Diseases -- 18 Other Spirochetal Diseases and the Mycoses -- 19 Helminthiases -- 20 Neoplastic Diseases -- 21 Endocrine Diseases -- 22 Food, Malnutrition, Avitaminoses, and Famine -- 23 Diseases of the Blood and Blood-forming Organs -- 24 Disorders and Diseases of the Nervous System -- 25 Cardiovascular Diseases -- 26 Respiratory Diseases -- 27 Digestive Diseases -- 28 Genitourinary Diseases -- 29 Pregna
• Destined to become a classic epidemiological study, EXPECTA- TIONS OF LIFE surveys world mortality, describing and ex- plaining the declines of mortality which have become especi- ally evident in this century