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Biological and social aspects of mortality and the length of life : proceedings of a seminar at Fiuggi,Italy, May 13-16, 1980

Title
Biological and social aspects of mortality and the length of life : proceedings of a seminar at Fiuggi,Italy, May 13-16, 1980 / Samuel H. Preston.
Publication
Liège, Belgium : Ordina Editions, [1982?]

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Additional Authors
  • Preston, Samuel H.
  • International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. Committee on Factors Affecting Mortality and Length of Life.
  • Università di Roma. Istituto di demografia.
Description
483 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Mortality > Congresses
  • Death (Biology) > Congresses
Note
  • "Sponsored by Committee on Factors Affecting Martality and Length of Life, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and Istituto di Demografia, University of Rome."
  • Summaries in french.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Introduction / Samuel H. Preston – Mortality differentials among human groups / Hugo Behm and Jacques Vallin – Biological contamination of the environment by man / W. H. Mosley – Mortality effects of physical and chemical contamination of the environment / Iwao M. Moriyama – Malnutrition, infection and infant mortality / Giorgio R. Solimano and Marty Vine – Weaning : nutrition, morbidity, and mortality consequences / Beverly Winikoff – Rural structures, food production and distribution / David Baytelman – Mortality and working conditions in industry / John R. Goldsmith – Mortality ad working conditions in agriculture in developing countries / Asa Cristina Laurell – Biological aspects of aging / Leonard Hayflick – Immunoregulation and aging / Roy L. Walford – The genetic cloc-hormone theory of aging / Arthur V. Everitt – Heritability of human longevity / Albert Jacquard – Bio-mathematical models of mortality / Bruno de Finetti and Carla Rossi – Biological determinants of early life mortality / Nora Federici and Luciano Terrenato – Demographic trends in postwar Japan : a genetic perspective on their mortality impact / William J. Schull and Yoshimichi Ochi – Morbidity and the major processes culminating in death / J.N. Biraben – Epidemiology of over-nutrition / A. Stewart Truswell – Alcohol use and mortality / Kari Poikolainen – Smoking and mortality / Bernard Benjamin – Personal behaviour affecting mortality / Nedra B. Belloc
ISBN
2870400241
OCLC
  • ocm11317282
  • SCSB-40813
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library