Fogel, Robert William - In: Handbook of population and family economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 433-481). 1997
This chapter describes the evolution of thought on, and knowledge of, the secular decline in mortality; provides new … the principal link between the food supply and mortality. The chapter also proposes a new theory of the way that the food … elimination of stunting and wasting at early ages is of major importance in the reduction of morbidity and mortality rates at …