Add to ORKGAssessments of the changing pattern of health in the present century are made on the basis of very limited evidence. Problems in evaluating such evidence as age specific mortality rates are considered. Fuller exploitation of morbidity records is advocated. But this data is notoriously difficult to interpret. The examples of malnutrition, tuberculosis and cancer are discussed to illustrate the degree to which a variety of factors lead to under-reporting. It is concluded that morbidity data is strongly influenced by revailing assumptions about health care; these in turn reflect economic pressures. Critical assessment of morbidity data casts doubt on the appropriateness and efficiency of health and welfare services, especially during the inter...
During the second half of the nineteenth century, friendly-society actuaries became increasingly con...
The economic depression of the 1930s represented the most important economic and social crisis of it...
During the second half of the nineteenth century, friendly-society actuaries became increasingly con...
Recent events highlight the importance of examining the impact of economic downturns on population h...
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a large number of working-class men (and a much small...
During the last twenty years, social and demographic historians have used a variety of approaches to...
The patient has been much neglected by medical historians: most medical history has been compiled by...
et al In their response to my letter,1 Stuckler et al2 refer to cancer outcomes and the Great Depres...
In this century we are progressing throughthree separate eras with dramatically different characteri...
BACKGROUND: Previous research suggests that the Great Depression led to improvements in public healt...
According to the human capital theory, health is a determinant of the economic development and shoul...
In their response to my letter,1 Stuckler et al2 refer to cancer outcomes and the Great Depression a...
Victorian; health; policy; W/H2 The health of society is the sum of recent public policy and the her...
Summary. The case is made for forms of medical history that focus explicitly on sickness, health and...
Using data from the Hampshire Friendly Society, a sickness insurance institution in southern England...
During the second half of the nineteenth century, friendly-society actuaries became increasingly con...
The economic depression of the 1930s represented the most important economic and social crisis of it...
During the second half of the nineteenth century, friendly-society actuaries became increasingly con...
Recent events highlight the importance of examining the impact of economic downturns on population h...
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a large number of working-class men (and a much small...
During the last twenty years, social and demographic historians have used a variety of approaches to...
The patient has been much neglected by medical historians: most medical history has been compiled by...
et al In their response to my letter,1 Stuckler et al2 refer to cancer outcomes and the Great Depres...
In this century we are progressing throughthree separate eras with dramatically different characteri...
BACKGROUND: Previous research suggests that the Great Depression led to improvements in public healt...
According to the human capital theory, health is a determinant of the economic development and shoul...
In their response to my letter,1 Stuckler et al2 refer to cancer outcomes and the Great Depression a...
Victorian; health; policy; W/H2 The health of society is the sum of recent public policy and the her...
Summary. The case is made for forms of medical history that focus explicitly on sickness, health and...
Using data from the Hampshire Friendly Society, a sickness insurance institution in southern England...
During the second half of the nineteenth century, friendly-society actuaries became increasingly con...
The economic depression of the 1930s represented the most important economic and social crisis of it...
During the second half of the nineteenth century, friendly-society actuaries became increasingly con...