connects those anthropometric measurements with an index of childhood mortality estimated from the censuses of 1900 and 1910 … primarily from the censuses of 1900 and 1910. The results indicate that early childhood mortality was a good (negative …

The modern secular decline in mortality in Western Europe did not begin until the 1780s and the first wave of … improvement was over by 1840. The elimination of famines and of crisis mortality played only a secondary role during the first … 1955. Improvement in nutrition and health may account for as much as 30 percent of the growth in conventionally measured …

highly correlated with the series on e10 and other measures of mortality. It is estimated that improvements in nutritional … status may have accounted for as much as four-tenths of the secular decline in mortality rates, but nearly all of this effect … was concentrated in the reduction of infant mortality. Additional results include an assessment of the effect of toxic …

trends in nutritional status, health, mortality, and the process of aging. The exploitation of these types of data involves … health and mortality. Part three involves the more complex problem of relating socioeconomic and biomedical stress suffered … by individuals early in life to their work levels, health and mortality rates at middle and late ages. The final section …

This paper sketches a theory of the secular decline in morbidity and mortality that takes account of changes in human …

was an excellent predictor of older age mortality from ischemic heart disease or stroke. Changes in frame size explain … roughly three-fifths of the mortality decline among white men between 1915 and 1988 and predict even sharper declines in older … age mortality between 1988 and 2022 …

The Antebellum Puzzle' describes the situation of declining stature and pos mortality in the three decades prior to the … the mortality environment a have worsened (or at least did not improve), connected with factors such as urba …, mortality was not improving in the antebellum period and was deterio York City. For the United States and for New York State …

The Antebellum Puzzle' describes the situation of declining stature and rising mortality in the three decades prior to … terms of protein and caloric intake in the mid-nineteenth century. But the mortality environment also appears to have … analyzes the relationship between local agricultural surpluses, nutritional status, mortality conditions, and adult heights …