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The faces of death: regional differentiation in cause-specific mortality in the past


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Authors

van den Boomen, N 

Abstract

In mortality research, much attention has been paid to the strong geographical differentials in mortality levels and in modern mortality decline, as the analysis of this geographical differentiation might hold the key to explaining the determinants of mortality change. The use of historical cause-specific mortality data has proved a challenging, although very insightful, means to this end. The four contributions to this Special Issue focus on cause-specific mortality in the past, both to reassess older data using new insights and to challenge existing insights by using new data and methods. These papers, of which earlier versions were presented during the 38th SSHA Meeting in Chicago, 21-24 November, 2013, explore mortality at different stages of the life course, ranging from early infancy to old age. Moreover, each paper revolves around a different group of causes of death. Although the papers are in many ways rather different, together they demonstrate how different data, theoretical frameworks and methodologies can push the boundaries of research into the trends and determinants of historical mortality patterns.

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Keywords

mortality, causes of death, cause of death classification, historical demography, spatial demography

Journal Title

History of the Family

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Journal ISSN

1081-602X
1873-5398

Volume Title

20

Publisher

Informa UK Limited