Demographers and the study of mortality: Scope, perspectives, and theory

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 954, Issue , 2001, Pages 19-34

  Caldwell, John C ^a  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged; Causes of death; Demographic empiricism; Demography; Epidemiology; Health transition; Mortality; Mortality transition; Old age mortality; Population; Wealth flows theory

Indexed keywords

AGING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPIRICISM; FERTILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORY;

EID: 0035683118     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb02744.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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