Expectations of Life : A Study in the Demography, Statistics, and History of World Mortality

Destined to become a classic epidemiological study, EXPECTA- TIONS OF LIFE surveys world mortality, describing and ex- plaining the declines of mortality which have become especi- ally evident in this century. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Mortality and the Evolution of Society....Pages 1-11 Identification and Classification of Diseases....Pages 12-23 Measurement of Mortality....Pages 24-37 Dynamics of Population Growth....Pages 38-50 Infectious Diseases....Pages 51-65 Intestinal Infectious Diseases....Pages 66-80 Tuberculosis....Pages 81-96 Zoonotic Bacterial Diseases....Pages 97-106 Other Bacterial Diseases....Pages 107-120 Diseases due to Viruses and Chlamydias....Pages 121-131 Viral Diseases Accompanied by Exanthem....Pages 132-148 Arthropod-borne Viral Diseases....Pages 149-155 Miscellaneous Diseases due to Viruses and Chlamydias....Pages 156-159 Rickettsioses....Pages 160-164 Malaria....Pages 165-178 Other Arthropod-borne Diseases....Pages 179-185 Syphilis and Other Venereal Diseases....Pages 186-190 Other Spirochetal Diseases and the Mycoses....Pages 191-192 Helminthiases....Pages 193-202 Neoplastic Diseases....Pages 203-222 Endocrine Diseases....Pages 223-226 Food, Malnutrition, Avitaminoses, and Famine....Pages 227-243 Diseases of the Blood and Blood-forming Organs....Pages 244-246 Disorders and Diseases of the Nervous System....Pages 247-251 Cardiovascular Diseases....Pages 252-265 Respiratory Diseases....Pages 266-271 Digestive Diseases....Pages 272-277 Genitourinary Diseases....Pages 278-279 Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium....Pages 280-290 Diseases of the Skin and Supporting Tissue....Pages 291-292 Congenital Anomalies and Human Genetics....Pages 293-298 Perinatal and Infant Mortality....Pages 299-313 War....Pages 314-340 Injury and Poisoning....Pages 341-353 Child and Early Adult Mortality....Pages 354-362 Mortality by Age and Sex: The Adult Ages....Pages 363-373 The British Isles....Pages 374-387 Continental Europe....Pages 388-395 Norden....Pages 396-409 Asia....Pages 410-413 Oceania....Pages 414-424 America: Beginnings and Development....Pages 425-435 Latin America....Pages 436-441 Africa....Pages 442-452 The Role of Therapy in the Decline of Mortality....Pages 453-476 Hygiene and Ecology....Pages 477-485 Subpopulations and Classes....Pages 486-496 Changes in Mortality by Disease....Pages 497-502 Epilogue....Pages 503-504 Back Matter....Pages 505-605

Destined to become a classic epidemiological study, EXPECTA-
TIONS OF LIFE surveys world mortality, describing and ex-
plaining the declines of mortality which have become especi-
ally evident in this century.