Demography and Nutrition: Evidence from Historical and Contemporary PopulationsISBN: 978-0-632-05983-6
Hardcover
384 pages
May 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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Chapter 1. Introduction.
Chapter 2. Mortality Oscillations in 404 English Parishes - a Metapopulation Study.
Chapter 3. The Staple Food Supply: Fluctuating Wheat Prices and Malnutrition.
Chapter 4. Famine.
Chapter 5. Long-term Demographic Effects of even a Small Famine.
Chapter 6. Fertility.
Chapter 7. Nutrition and Pregnancy.
Chapter 8. Infancy.
Chapter 9. Infant Mortality.
Chapter 10. Exogenous Cycles: A Case Study.
Chapter 11. The Amelioration of Infant Mortality in Rural England.
Chapter 12. Iodine Deficiency and Endogenous Mortality.
Chapter 13. Seasonality.
Chapter 14. Sex Ratios.
Chapter 15. Childhood Mortality and Infectious Diseases.
Chapter 16. Population Dynamics, Disease and Malnutrition in the Nineteenth Century in England.
Chapter 17. Ageing.
Chapter 18. Conclusions.
Appendix.
References.
Index.