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Quality of life and mortality among children : historical perspectives / Thomas E. Jordan.

Title
Quality of life and mortality among children : historical perspectives / Thomas E. Jordan.
Author
Jordan, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward)
Publication
Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2012.

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xi, 88 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
Summary
[Publisher-supplied data] This birefs 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, poems, church records and numerical accounts. They offer descriptions of the quality of life and child mortality over the three centuries under study. Additional sources for the nineteenth century are two census-derived numerical indexes of the quality of life. They are the VICQUAL index for England and Wales, and the QUALEIRE index for Ireland. Statistical procedures have been applied to the numbers provided by the sources with the aim to identify effects of and associations between such variables as gender, age, and social background. The briefs examines the results to consider the impact of children's deaths upon parents and families, and concludes that there are differences and continuities across the centuries.
Series Statement
SpringerBriefs in well-being and quality of life research, 2211-7644
Uniform Title
SpringerBriefs in well-being and quality of life research.
Subject
  • Children > History. > England
  • Children > History. > Ireland
  • Children > History
  • Quality of life
  • Child Welfare > history
  • Child Mortality > history
  • History, 17th Century
  • History, 18th Century
  • History, 19th Century
  • Quality of Life
  • England
  • Ireland
  • Wales
  • Social sciences
  • Maternal and infant welfare
  • Quality of Life
  • Quality of Life > Research
  • Psychology, clinical
  • Health Psychology
  • Maternal and Child Health
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Mortality -- Quality of Life -- Death of Children in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries -- Children's Mortality in England and Wales: 1838-1902 -- Birth, Life, and Death in Dublin, 1619-1798 -- Nineteenth Century Ireland -- Mortality Among Children.
ISBN
  • 9789400743892
  • 9400743890
  • 9789400743908 (electronic bk.) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9400743904 (electronic bk.) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2012938005
OCLC
798258470
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library