The Social Context of Child Mortality in the American Southwest

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ID3136135
AuthorsMyron P Gutmann (0000-0002-6808-3573), Kenneth H Flie, Kenneth H Fliess
Year1996
Volume26
Issue4
Pages589
Publication date1996-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/205043
OpenAlexW2031299964
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This article is a report about the social context of infant and childhood mortality levels in six rural counties in Texas....Our evidence derives from the set of questions asked of married women in the 1900 and 1910 census about the number of children born the number of children surviving and the number of years married. To these facts we have added other evidence about wealth as reported in County tax assessments. Our goal is to show the nature of social differences in childhood mortality in Texas as well as to emphasize a number of issues....The early sections are concerned with the explication of childhood mortality differences by racial and ethnic group and by occupational group. Our research indicates that differences in childhood mortality evade the readily identifiable social characteristics of families. We refer to these extended differences in our population as local mortality attributes which in our analysis initially take the form of county differences in mortality when ethnicity social status and other variables are held constant. Further pursuit of the matter suggests that contact with disease through general conditions of poverty and density was a significant factor. (EXCERPT)

Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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