Childhood misery and disease in later life: The effects on mortality in old age of hazards experienced in early life, southern Sweden, 1760-1894

Population Studies

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 263-277

  Bengtsson, Tommy ^a   Lindström, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; RURAL SOCIETY;

AGED; ARTICLE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HEALTH; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; MORTALITY; SWEDEN;

AGED; DISEASE; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; MORTALITY; RURAL HEALTH; SWEDEN;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0034451453     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713779096     Document Type: Article

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