Infant mortality [[electronic resource] ] : a continuing social problem / / edited by Eilidh Garrett ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451163403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Aldershot, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2006
• ISBN: 1-003-06323-3; 1-351-15562-8; 1-281-10359-4; 9786611103590; 0-7546-8323-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GarrettEilidh
• Disciplina: 614.5/992392
• Soggetti: Infants - Mortality - Great Britain; Infants - Mortality - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A volume to mark the centenary of the 1906 publication of Infant mortality : a social problem by George Newman."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-286) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Infant mortality : a social problem? / Eilidh Garrett ... [et al.] -- George Newman--a life in public health / Chris Galley -- Newman's Infant mortality as an agenda for research / Robert Woods -- Place and status as determinants of infant mortality in England c.1550-1837 / Richard Smith and Jim Oeppen -- A double penalty? : infant mortality in the Lincolnshire Fens, 1870-1900 / Sam Sneddon -- Infant mortality in Northamptonshire : a vaccination register study / Tricia James -- Urban-rural differences in infant mortality : a view from the death registers of Skye and Kilmarnock, Scotland / Eilidh Garrett --; Diarrhoea : the central issue? / Eric Hall and Michael Drake -- Infant mortality, a spatial problem : Notting Dale Special area in George Newman's London / Graham Mooney and Andrea Tanner -- Health visitors and 'enlightened motherhood' / Alice Reid -- Infant mortality and social progress in Britain, 1905-2005 / Danny Dorling -- The health of infants at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Yvonne Kelly -- Conclusion : the social dimension of infant well-being / Nicola ; Shelton.
• Sommario/riassunto: Commemorating 100 years since the publication of Sir George Newman's 'Infant Mortality: A Social Problem', this volume evaluates Newman's critical contribution, reviews current understandings of the history of infant and early childhood mortality and discusses modern approaches to infant health as a continuing social problem. It also proposes new ways of defining and tackling the problem of persistent mortality differentials.