The health transition has been introduced as a form of sustained change over time which accompanied the mortality transition. But measuring health trends remains deeply problematic. Since health history depends on how "health" is defïned, we should not be surprised that from the nineteenth century to the present competing definitions have produced divergent histories of "health", each of which had different implications for health policy. In this paper controversies over the meaning of "health" are explored as they developed in Victorian England. There the government's medical statisticians assumed that the individual's health status was a constant, while mortality actuaries, who were employed by insurance companies, assumed that it was hig...
In recent years a wide-ranging debate has focused on the origins and extent of the decline in mortal...
Historical trends of mortality and its implications for health policies in England and Wales: the ca...
The medical writer, Thomas McKeown, can justifiably claim to have been one of the most influential f...
During the second half of the nineteenth century, friendly-society actuaries became increasingly con...
During the second half of the nineteenth century, friendly-society actuaries became increasingly con...
Victorian; health; policy; W/H2 The health of society is the sum of recent public policy and the her...
During the last twenty years, social and demographic historians have used a variety of approaches to...
Using adult life-long histories of health experience among a group of men and women born in Britain ...
In the later decades of the nineteenth century, the United Kingdom experienced a shift in the causes...
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a large number of working-class men (and a much small...
The patient has been much neglected by medical historians: most medical history has been compiled by...
McKeown and Record's classification of the causes of the nineteenth- century mortality decline has...
These two volumes bring together important and influential articles and papers on different aspects ...
The concepts of health and illness have been defined differently throughout history. As knowledge ha...
Using adult life-long histories of health experience among a group of men and women born in Britain ...
In recent years a wide-ranging debate has focused on the origins and extent of the decline in mortal...
Historical trends of mortality and its implications for health policies in England and Wales: the ca...
The medical writer, Thomas McKeown, can justifiably claim to have been one of the most influential f...
During the second half of the nineteenth century, friendly-society actuaries became increasingly con...
During the second half of the nineteenth century, friendly-society actuaries became increasingly con...
Victorian; health; policy; W/H2 The health of society is the sum of recent public policy and the her...
During the last twenty years, social and demographic historians have used a variety of approaches to...
Using adult life-long histories of health experience among a group of men and women born in Britain ...
In the later decades of the nineteenth century, the United Kingdom experienced a shift in the causes...
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a large number of working-class men (and a much small...
The patient has been much neglected by medical historians: most medical history has been compiled by...
McKeown and Record's classification of the causes of the nineteenth- century mortality decline has...
These two volumes bring together important and influential articles and papers on different aspects ...
The concepts of health and illness have been defined differently throughout history. As knowledge ha...
Using adult life-long histories of health experience among a group of men and women born in Britain ...
In recent years a wide-ranging debate has focused on the origins and extent of the decline in mortal...
Historical trends of mortality and its implications for health policies in England and Wales: the ca...
The medical writer, Thomas McKeown, can justifiably claim to have been one of the most influential f...