The joint effect of maternal malnutrition and cold weather on neonatal mortality in nineteenth-century Venice: An assessment of the hypothermia hypothesis

Population Studies

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 233-251

  Derosas, Renzo ^a  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cold; Hypothermia; Low birth weight; Maternal malnutrition; Neonatal mortality; Northern Italy

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLIMATE EFFECT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INFANT MORTALITY; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL HEALTH; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NINETEENTH CENTURY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO]; VENICE;

EID: 70449479075     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00324720903165449     Document Type: Article

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