Height and health in late eighteenth-century England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4267102 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hannaliis Jaadla (0000-0002-8569-347X, University of Cambridge), Leigh Shaw-Taylor (0000-0002-3703-7689, University of Cambridge), Romola J Davenport (0000-0002-6828-9846, University of Cambridge) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 381-401 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00324728.2020.1823011 |
| PMID | 32990142 |
| OpenAlex | W3090892393 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 85 |
Adult stature has become a widely used indicator of childhood nutritional status in historical populations and may provide insights into health inequalities that are not discernible in mortality rates. However, most pre-twentieth-century British data on heights suffer from selection biases. Here we present unique evidence on heights of adult males by occupation from an unbiased sample of adult males in Dorset in 1798–99. The mean height of fully grown (married) men was very similar to that of older military recruits, and our sample therefore confirms the taller stature of English males relative to males of other European countries in the same period. In contrast to previous evidence of negligible or U-shaped socio-economic gradients in mortality in this period, we found a fairly linear gradient in height by socio-economic status, that is similar in magnitude to class differences in adult height among English males born in the mid-twentieth century.Supplementary material for this article is available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2020.1823011
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| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |