Demographic Trends
Beyond the Limits
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2909255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacques Vallin (0009-0002-3383-9868), Graziella Caselli |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | HS1 |
| Pages | 41-71 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-4663 • E-ISSN: 1957-7966 |
| Publisher | CAIRN (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3917/popu.p2001.13n1.0071 |
| OpenAlex | W2292055308 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 5 |
Towards the end of the 1700s, and as fate would have it, only days before being sacrificed to the French Revolution, Condorcet wrote: One feels that the progress made in medicine, having become more efficient thanks to the advance of reason and social order, must in time eliminate transmittable and contagious diseases, as well as general diseases due to climate, food and working conditions. This should logically be the case for all the other illnesses the distant causes of which we will one day know. Would it be absurd to suppose that this perfecting of the human race should be expected to go on indefinitely, that there must come a time when death would only be the result of either extraordinary accidents or of the progressively slower destruction of the vital forces and that finally the average length of time between birth and this destruction has no specifiable duration? There is no doubt that man will not become immortal; but is there no reason to believe that the interval between the moment when his life begins and the time when, naturally and without the intervention of an illness or an accident, he usually finds it difficult to go on living, continually increase?') (Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progres de l'esprit humain (Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human
Geography · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
"Should governments in Europe be more aggressive in pushing for gender equality to raise fertility? The second "NO
Europe's Demographic Future
Continued Reductions in Mortality at Advanced Ages
The Implications of Increased Survivorship for Mortality Variation in Aging Populations
Age-Specific Variation in Adult Mortality Rates in Developed Countries
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2016 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |