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invest in child welfare programs? He also documents the history of different child welfare movements and examines the GOBI strategy pursued by UNICEF. George Kent is a savvy political scientist; his evaluation of the different strategies seeking to enhance child survival and of the political opposition to them is particularly interesting. The chapter that questions the argument that children should be treated as human capital-that national resources invested to alleviate malnutrition of children and to improve their health will ultimately benefit the nation-provides an excellent example. Kent examines the link between health, nutrition, and productivity and finds little empirical evidence to support the hypothesized relationship. The chapter also discusses the moral foundation of using the human capital approach to justify national child nutrition and survival programs. If economic return is the primary consideration, would we invest in the elderly or in handicapped children? Kent argues that although the human capital argument may be politically potent, it is often empirically incorrect and morally defective. The argument has got it backwards, he asserts, for it assumes that the function of people is to serve the economy, rather than the reverse. Bibliography, index.-S.D

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• Exterminated by the bloody flux

  David Boyd Haycock•Journal for Maritime Research•2002

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• Residential segregation and the epidemiology of infectious diseases

  Open Access•Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Dolores Acevedo‐garcía•Social Science & Medicine•2000

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• The Reporting and Classification of Causes of Death in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England

  Naomi Williams•Historical Methods A Journal of…•1996

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• An Examination of the Differential Effects of the Modern Epidemiological Transition on Cranial Morphology in the United States and Portugal

  Katherine E Weisensee, Weisensee Weisensee et al.•Human Biology•2016

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• Time Series Analysis of the Epidemiological Transition in Minorca, 1634-1997

  M Muñoz-Tudurí, Marta Muñoz‐tudurí et al.•Human Biology•2006

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• Measles and the spatio-temporal structure of modern Japan1

  Open Access•Ayako Suzuki, Akihito Suzuki•The Economic History Review•2009

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• Urban inoculation and the decline of smallpox mortality in eighteenth‐century cities—a reply to R azzell

  Open Access•Romola J Davenport, Jeremy Boulton et al.•The Economic History Review•2015

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• Coleridge's Choleras

  G S Rousseau, David Boyd Haycock•Bulletin of the history of medicine•2003

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• Secular changes in craniofacial morphology of the portuguese using geometric morphometrics

  Open Access•Katherine E Weisensee, R L Jantz•American Journal of Physical…•2011

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• Vital Accounts

  Open Access•Andrea Rusnock, Andrea A Rusnock•Vital Accounts•2002

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• The Elusive Role of Scientific Medicine in Mortality Decline

  Gretchen A Condran•Journal of the History of…•2008

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• Health transition review

  Open Access•Carlos Ε A Coimbra, Carlos E A Coimbra Jr•Cadernos de Saude Publica•1992

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