Gorsky, Martin; Guntupalli, Aravinda; Harris, Bernard; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 12, pp. 1775-1783
‘cultural inflation of morbidity’). We review historical demographers’ contributions to this literature and discuss the concepts … tests for ‘cultural inflation’ which allow us to assess the validity of insurance records for deriving morbidity trends: was … count our results fail to demonstrate a cultural inflation of morbidity, except perhaps for those aged over 65. However …