The health transition and biological living standards: Adult height and mortality in 20th-century Spain

Economics and Human Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 276-288

  Spijker, Jeroen J A ^a   Cámara, Antonio D ^a   Blanes, Amand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cohort height; Health surveys; Health transition; Infant mortality; Spain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY HEIGHT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEALTH TRANSITION; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859211229     PISSN: 1570677X     EISSN: 18736130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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