Lawrence A Sawchuk
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3693859 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lawrence A Sawchuk |
| PRENOMES | Lawrence A |
| SOBRENOME | Sawchuk |
| ASSINATURA | SAWCHUK L A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Toronto |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The emergence of a suburban penalty during the 1918/19 influenza pandemic in Malta
The Malta 1918/19 influenza experience adds to our understanding of the pandemic by illustrating the importance of suburban populations, their vulnerabilities, and elevated mortality rates. Studies on the socio-geographical variation in the 1918/19 influenza mortality has largely overlooked the suburban experience, and thus the often-hidden heterogeneity of the disease experience is missing. A comparison of mortality rates across the three settle…
Situating mortality
A wide range of stressors can cause a dramatic and sudden rise in the death rate in populations, typically resulting in what is referred to as crisis mortality. Here we present a method to standardize the assessment of identifying moments of crises. A modification of the mortality Z ‐score methodology which is combined with time series analysis was used to investigate mortality events over the course of nearly two centuries for two populations: G…
The Jewish Advantage and Household Security
Brief communication
This study will assess the general impact of the 1918 influenza on overall mortality and its impact on mortality attributable to pulmonary tuberculosis in a small‐scale population. Using life table and decomposition methodologies, changes in mortality in Gibraltar used a scheme that identified a pre‐epidemic period (1904–1917), the epidemic year (1918), and the post‐epidemic period (1919–1927). Overall health in both sexes fell significantly in 1…
The Barefooted Foreigner
In 1885, a cholera epidemic threatened the British fortress colony of Gibraltar. As opposed to previous cholera epidemics, this outbreak was marked by scapegoating, and Maltese immigrants were repeatedly blamed for the threat of disease in the colony. The historical evidence suggests that this scapegoating was more likely a by-product of sociopolitical tensions relating to immigration than any true medical or epidemiological reality
Quantifying the Colonized/Colonist Relationship
The person-years construct
Age has the ability to confound prevalence data. Yet, the effects of length of exposure and age-structure on such prevalence data are seldom directly measured in osteological studies. Here we describe a simple method that addresses both issues through the use of person-years, and treatment of data in the case of rare events as Poisson counts. We advocate use of person-years as a denominator when comparing skeletal data that involves the cumulativ…
Tuberculosis mortality and recent childbirth
A Matter of Privilege
The British colony of Gibraltar offers an opportunity to compare the infant mortality rates of the civilian and military populations inhabiting a small-scale urban setting from 1870 to 1899. Both groups shared the same poor-quality housing, the same sanitary infrastructure, and the same environmental inseparability. Sufficient water supply, in particular, proved to be a daily struggle for the families living on the Rock. Privilege for the militar…
Alien encounters
In a place where land was scarce and military security paramount, population growth was perceived as Gibraltar's most insidious curse. While British law protected the rightful residence of those who were recognized by the early 19th century definition of Gibraltar “native,” colonial authorities realized that the local population was also increasing by other means. The tenet of the jus soli became one of Gibraltar's most notable weaknesses in atte…
Gibraltar's 1804 Yellow Fever Scourge
LAWRENCE A. SAWCHUK, STACIE D. A. BURKE; Gibraltar's 1804 Yellow Fever Scourge: The Search for Scapegoats, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sc
Rainfall, Patio Living, and Crisis Mortality in a Small-Scale Society
Societal and ecological determinants of urban health
Historical Intervention, Tradition, and Change
This article examines the age at first marriage among a series of temporally defined marriage cohorts spanning the period 1909 to 1983 for the civilian inhabitants of the Rock of Gibraltar. The pattern of late marriage among Gibraltarians remained relatively stable until a stage of siege' was imposed by Spain. The reduction in matrimonial age is explored in terms of a host of factors, including a significant rise in the number of women entering t…
A socioeconomic analysis of secular trends in isonymy in the Jewish community of Gibraltar
This study examines secular trends in the magnitude of inbreeding in the Jewish community of Gibraltar over a 120 year period. Analysis of isonymous unions by socioeconomic status revealed distinctive differences between high versus mid/low status unions. Factors responsible for the elevated rate of inbreeding among the professional/mercantile class and its secular trend are discussed
Evidence of a Jewish Advantage
Historic Fertility Patterns in a Northern Ontario Ojibwa Community
Religious Exogamy and Gene Flow Among the Jews of Gibraltar, 1870-1969
Birth Intervals inM. sylvanus of Gibraltar
Demography ofMacaca sylvanus of Gibraltar
The person-years construct
Age has the ability to confound prevalence data. Yet, the effects of length of exposure and age-structure on such prevalence data are seldom directly measured in osteological studies. Here we describe a simple method that addresses both issues through the use of person-years, and treatment of data in the case of rare events as Poisson counts. We advocate use of person-years as a denominator when comparing skeletal data that involves the cumulativ…
Evidence of a Jewish Advantage
Societal and ecological determinants of urban health
Situating mortality
A wide range of stressors can cause a dramatic and sudden rise in the death rate in populations, typically resulting in what is referred to as crisis mortality. Here we present a method to standardize the assessment of identifying moments of crises. A modification of the mortality Z ‐score methodology which is combined with time series analysis was used to investigate mortality events over the course of nearly two centuries for two populations: G…
Gibraltar's 1804 Yellow Fever Scourge
LAWRENCE A. SAWCHUK, STACIE D. A. BURKE; Gibraltar's 1804 Yellow Fever Scourge: The Search for Scapegoats, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sc
Brief communication
This study will assess the general impact of the 1918 influenza on overall mortality and its impact on mortality attributable to pulmonary tuberculosis in a small‐scale population. Using life table and decomposition methodologies, changes in mortality in Gibraltar used a scheme that identified a pre‐epidemic period (1904–1917), the epidemic year (1918), and the post‐epidemic period (1919–1927). Overall health in both sexes fell significantly in 1…
Alien encounters
In a place where land was scarce and military security paramount, population growth was perceived as Gibraltar's most insidious curse. While British law protected the rightful residence of those who were recognized by the early 19th century definition of Gibraltar “native,” colonial authorities realized that the local population was also increasing by other means. The tenet of the jus soli became one of Gibraltar's most notable weaknesses in atte…
Rainfall, Patio Living, and Crisis Mortality in a Small-Scale Society
Historical Intervention, Tradition, and Change
This article examines the age at first marriage among a series of temporally defined marriage cohorts spanning the period 1909 to 1983 for the civilian inhabitants of the Rock of Gibraltar. The pattern of late marriage among Gibraltarians remained relatively stable until a stage of siege' was imposed by Spain. The reduction in matrimonial age is explored in terms of a host of factors, including a significant rise in the number of women entering t…
Quantifying the Colonized/Colonist Relationship
Tuberculosis mortality and recent childbirth
A Matter of Privilege
The British colony of Gibraltar offers an opportunity to compare the infant mortality rates of the civilian and military populations inhabiting a small-scale urban setting from 1870 to 1899. Both groups shared the same poor-quality housing, the same sanitary infrastructure, and the same environmental inseparability. Sufficient water supply, in particular, proved to be a daily struggle for the families living on the Rock. Privilege for the militar…
Religious Exogamy and Gene Flow Among the Jews of Gibraltar, 1870-1969
Demography ofMacaca sylvanus of Gibraltar
Birth Intervals inM. sylvanus of Gibraltar
Historic Fertility Patterns in a Northern Ontario Ojibwa Community
Religious Exogamy and Gene Flow Among the Jews of Gibraltar, 1870-1969
Evidence of a Jewish Advantage
A socioeconomic analysis of secular trends in isonymy in the Jewish community of Gibraltar
This study examines secular trends in the magnitude of inbreeding in the Jewish community of Gibraltar over a 120 year period. Analysis of isonymous unions by socioeconomic status revealed distinctive differences between high versus mid/low status unions. Factors responsible for the elevated rate of inbreeding among the professional/mercantile class and its secular trend are discussed
Historical Intervention, Tradition, and Change
This article examines the age at first marriage among a series of temporally defined marriage cohorts spanning the period 1909 to 1983 for the civilian inhabitants of the Rock of Gibraltar. The pattern of late marriage among Gibraltarians remained relatively stable until a stage of siege' was imposed by Spain. The reduction in matrimonial age is explored in terms of a host of factors, including a significant rise in the number of women entering t…
Societal and ecological determinants of urban health
Rainfall, Patio Living, and Crisis Mortality in a Small-Scale Society
Gibraltar's 1804 Yellow Fever Scourge
LAWRENCE A. SAWCHUK, STACIE D. A. BURKE; Gibraltar's 1804 Yellow Fever Scourge: The Search for Scapegoats, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sc
Alien encounters
In a place where land was scarce and military security paramount, population growth was perceived as Gibraltar's most insidious curse. While British law protected the rightful residence of those who were recognized by the early 19th century definition of Gibraltar “native,” colonial authorities realized that the local population was also increasing by other means. The tenet of the jus soli became one of Gibraltar's most notable weaknesses in atte…
A Matter of Privilege
The British colony of Gibraltar offers an opportunity to compare the infant mortality rates of the civilian and military populations inhabiting a small-scale urban setting from 1870 to 1899. Both groups shared the same poor-quality housing, the same sanitary infrastructure, and the same environmental inseparability. Sufficient water supply, in particular, proved to be a daily struggle for the families living on the Rock. Privilege for the militar…
The person-years construct
Age has the ability to confound prevalence data. Yet, the effects of length of exposure and age-structure on such prevalence data are seldom directly measured in osteological studies. Here we describe a simple method that addresses both issues through the use of person-years, and treatment of data in the case of rare events as Poisson counts. We advocate use of person-years as a denominator when comparing skeletal data that involves the cumulativ…
Tuberculosis mortality and recent childbirth
Quantifying the Colonized/Colonist Relationship
The Barefooted Foreigner
In 1885, a cholera epidemic threatened the British fortress colony of Gibraltar. As opposed to previous cholera epidemics, this outbreak was marked by scapegoating, and Maltese immigrants were repeatedly blamed for the threat of disease in the colony. The historical evidence suggests that this scapegoating was more likely a by-product of sociopolitical tensions relating to immigration than any true medical or epidemiological reality
Brief communication
This study will assess the general impact of the 1918 influenza on overall mortality and its impact on mortality attributable to pulmonary tuberculosis in a small‐scale population. Using life table and decomposition methodologies, changes in mortality in Gibraltar used a scheme that identified a pre‐epidemic period (1904–1917), the epidemic year (1918), and the post‐epidemic period (1919–1927). Overall health in both sexes fell significantly in 1…
The Jewish Advantage and Household Security
Situating mortality
A wide range of stressors can cause a dramatic and sudden rise in the death rate in populations, typically resulting in what is referred to as crisis mortality. Here we present a method to standardize the assessment of identifying moments of crises. A modification of the mortality Z ‐score methodology which is combined with time series analysis was used to investigate mortality events over the course of nearly two centuries for two populations: G…
The emergence of a suburban penalty during the 1918/19 influenza pandemic in Malta
The Malta 1918/19 influenza experience adds to our understanding of the pandemic by illustrating the importance of suburban populations, their vulnerabilities, and elevated mortality rates. Studies on the socio-geographical variation in the 1918/19 influenza mortality has largely overlooked the suburban experience, and thus the often-hidden heterogeneity of the disease experience is missing. A comparison of mortality rates across the three settle…
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