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This article briefly describes a large, multidisciplinary research project that combines skeletal data in Europe over … the past 10,000 years with information from sources in history, archaeology, geography and climate history to measure and …
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Health Organization (WHO) to the point where States share their sovereignty with the organisation, this article argues that … sovereignty and the structure of international law are already changing in ways that will assist. The sharing of sovereignty may … not be necessary at a time when “global regulatory standards” are emerging that help tame sovereignty in an interdependent …
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Sovereign boundaries, state borders, and distinctions between citizens and non-citizens undermine public health in the United States in a number of ways. For historical reasons, we are prone to view immigration and public health as separate interests, but they are in fact convergent....
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"In A History of Population Health Johan P. Mackenbach offers a broad-sweeping study of the spectacular changes in … people's health in Europe since the early 18th century. Most of the 40 specific diseases covered in this book show a … and general history, it shows that these changes and variations did not occur spontaneously, but were mostly man …
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We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality...
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We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910207
Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution...
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