03385nam 22006134a 450 991081552090332120240430172043.01-003-06323-31-351-15562-81-281-10359-497866111035900-7546-8323-0(CKB)1000000000415072(EBL)429577(OCoLC)437113419(SSID)ssj0000178758(PQKBManifestationID)11165192(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000178758(PQKBWorkID)10230260(PQKB)10117719(Au-PeEL)EBL429577(CaPaEBR)ebr10211504(CaONFJC)MIL110359(MiAaPQ)EBC429577(EXLCZ)99100000000041507220060922d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInfant mortality a continuing social problem /edited by Eilidh Garrett ... [et al.]1st ed.Aldershot, England ;Burlington, VT Ashgatec20061 online resource (312 p.)"A volume to mark the centenary of the 1906 publication of Infant mortality : a social problem by George Newman."0-7546-4593-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-286) and index.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.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.InfantsMortalityGreat BritainInfantsMortalityGreat BritainHistory20th centuryInfantsMortalityInfantsMortalityHistory614.5/992392Garrett Eilidh1631933MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815520903321Infant mortality3970785UNINA