Early Life Conditions and Rapid Demographic Changes in the Developing World Consequences for Older Adult Health /

• Main Author: McEniry, Mary (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Public health.; Maternal and child health services.; Aging.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Public Health.; Maternal and Child Health.

This book examines the long term consequences of improvements in life expectancy in the mid 20th century which are partly responsible for the growth of the elderly population in the developing world.  Rapid demographic changes in child and infant mortality due to the reduction in and better treatmen...

Table of Contents:

• 1: Aging Populations and the Determinants of Older Adult Health
• 2: A Contrarian Conjecture, Road Map, Ideal Data, Approach
• 3: Data Sources, Measures, Validity, and a Description of the Older Adult Population
• 4: Cross-National Morbidity Patterns
• 5: Cross-National Mortality Patterns and Health Disparties
• 6: Tide, Trick or Flow
• Appendices
• References
• Index.