A recently completed series of life tables from 1751 to 1995 is used for identifying four stages of mortality transition in Finland, separated by the years 1880, 1945 and 1970. The cyclical ...

Abstract: Did improved housing conditions contribute to the 19th century mortality transition? In this paper we examine a rare example of a government-directed public health intervention in rural ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Demographic Research Vol. 37, JULY - DECEMBER 2017 Women’s education, infant and child mort ...

Industrial countries have largely completed what is called the "demographic transition"—the transition from a largely rural agrarian society with high fertility and mortality rates to a predominantly ...

In the final phase of the epidemiologic transition, CVD and cancer remain the major causes of morbidity and mortality. However, major technologic advances, such as coronary care units ...

as they move rapidly through the second and third phases of the epidemiologic transition. The consequences of the CVD epidemic will be substantial on many levels -- increased morbidity, mortality ...