Resource availability, mortality, and fertility: A path analytic approach to global life-history variation

Human Biology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 101-125

  Caudell, Mark A ^a   Quinlan, Robert J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Life history theory; Mortality; Path analysis; Teenage pregnancy; Total fertility rate

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALORIC INTAKE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INFORMATION LITERACY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SANITATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INFORMATION LITERACY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SANITATION; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863109135     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/027.084.0201     Document Type: Article

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