Introduction to special section on the biological standard of living
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12447016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isabelle Devos (0000-0002-6111-711X, a Ghent University, History Department , Belgium, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-59 |
| Publication date | 2010-02-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The History of the Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1081-602X • E-ISSN: 1873-5398 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.hisfam.2010.02.002 |
| OpenAlex | W1987869405 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
In December 2008 the WOG Historical Demography organised a workshop at Ghent University that covered a wide range of topics from fertility trends and kinship characteristics to health issues. The presentations and discussions that took place at the workshop provided the inspiration for this special section on the biological standard of living. The articles in this section offer valuable contributions for three of those biological measures: height, mortality and cause of death. The introduction to the section demonstrates the significance of this particular kind of evidence for our understanding of social and economic history. Exploring and analysing the well-being of populations is one of the most interesting and main challenges of social scientists. As the articles in this special section show, using historical evidence on the health and height of a population is extremely important for our understanding of certain socio-economic processes, but also extremely complex
Fertility · Kinship · Political science · Population · Section (typography · Social science · Sociology · Special section · Standard of living · Anthropology · Computer Science · Demography · Engineering · Historical and modern epidemiology studies · History · Law
Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
Social science history
La régionalisation de la surmortalité des jeunes filles en Belgique entre 1890 et 1910
Van geboortebank tot collaboratory. Een reflectie op twintig jaar dataverzameling en onderzoek met de HSN
Height and Per Capita Income
The Economics of Mortality in North America, 1650–1910
Poverty and Physical Stature
Height and the Standard of Living
Life under pressure
Death Clustering, Mothers' Education and the Determinants of Child Mortality in Rural Punjab, India
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |