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Biological and Social Aspects of Mortality and the Length of Life
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Book : Biological and Social Aspects of Mortality and the Length of Life
Author : * Samuel H. Preston Language : English Library : Social Phsician Publish Place : Belgium Publish Date : 00 1980 Publisher : Ordina Editions Book Type : Book Book Number : 3240 |
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Samuel H. Preston
1 Mortality differentials among human groups
Hugo Behm and Jacques Vallin .....................................
PART I. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON MORTALITY
2 Biological contamination of the environment by man
W.H. Mosley ......................................................
3 Mortality effects of physical and chemical contamination of the environment
Iwao M. Moriyama
4 Malnutrition, infection and infant mortality
Giorgio R. Solimano and Marty Vine...............................
5 Weaning: nutrition, morbidity, and mortality consequences
Beverly Winikoff.................................................
6 Rural structures, food production and distribution
David Baytelman ..................................................
7 Mortality and working conditions in industry
John R. Goldsmith ................................................
8 Mortality and working conditions in agriculture in developing countries
Asa Cristina Laurell .............................................
PART II. BIOLOGICAL AND GENETIC INFLUENCES ON MORTALITY
9 Biological aspects of aging
Leonard Hayflick .................................................
10 Immunoregulation and aging
Roy L. Walford ................................................... 11 The genetic clock-hormone theory of aging Arthur V. Everitt
12 Heritability of human longevity Albert Jacquard
13 Bio-mathematical models of mortality
Bruno de Finetti and Carla Rossi
14 Biological determinants of early life mortality Nora Federici and Luciano Terrenato
15 Demographic trends in postwar Japan: a genetic perspective on their mortality impact
William J. Schull and Yoshimichi Ochi
16 Morbidity and the major processes culminating in death J.N. Biraben......................................
PART III. BEHAVIORAL INFLUENCES ON MORTALITY
17 Epidemiology of over-nutrition A. Stevart Truswell
18 Alcohol use and mortality Kari Poikolainen
19 Smoking and mortality
Bernard Benjamin
20 Personal behaviour affecting mortality Nedra B. Belloc
