Exploring Thailand's mortality transition with the aid of life tables
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12582500 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gordon A Carmichael (Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-105 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asia Pacific Viewpoint (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7456 • E-ISSN: 1467-8373 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8373.2010.01436.x |
| PMID | 21847831 |
| OpenAlex | W1907369292 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 32 |
The project Thai Health-Risk Transition: A National Cohort Study seeks to better understand the health implications of modernisation and globalisation forces impacting on Thailand. As part of its "look-back" component this paper seeks, using available life tables, to document the country's post-war mortality transition. The onset of transition through mass campaigns of the late 1940s and 1950s is first discussed before attention turns to the life tables. They are predictably far from flawless, but careful analysis does permit trends that have seen around 30 years added to life expectancy to be traced, and age patterns of improved survivorship and their relation to initiatives to improve health to be examined. The broad benefits generated by mass campaigns, ongoing improvements in infant and early childhood mortality, and a phased impact of the expansion of primary health care in rural areas on adult survival prospects after the mid-1970s are demonstrated. The paper also investigates the consequences for mortality of a motorcycle-focused rapid increase in road fatalities in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the HIV/AIDS epidemic that developed after 1984
Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Epidemiological transition · Life course approach · Life expectancy · Modernization theory · Political science · Population · Sociology · Survivorship curve · Asian Studies and History · Demography · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Medicine · Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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| Citations per year | 0.29 |
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| Citation span | 2012 - 2019 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |