Quality of Life and Mortality Among Children Historical Perspectives /

• Main Author: Jordan, Thomas E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Maternal and child health services.; Medical research.; Quality of life.; Health psychology.; Social Sciences.; Quality of Life Research.; Health Psychology.; Maternal and Child Health.

This briefs examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of information from the census unit England and Wales, and from Ireland. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries...

Table of Contents:

• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Mortality
• Chapter 2. Quality of Life
• Chapter 3. Death of Children in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
• Chapter 4. Children’s Mortality in England and Wales, 1838 – 1902
• Chapter 5. Birth, Life, and Death in Dublin 1649 - 1798
• Chapter 6. Children’s Mortality in Ireland 1864 – 1902. Chapter 7. Mortality Among Children
• References .-.