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Author Jordan, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward)

Title Quality of life and mortality among children : historical perspectives / Thomas E. Jordan
Published Dordrecht : Springer, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 88 pages) : maps
Series SpringerBriefs in well-being and quality of life research, 2211-7644
SpringerBriefs in well-being and quality of life research.
Contents Mortality -- Quality of Life -- Death of Children in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries -- Children's Mortality in England and Wales: 1838-1902 -- Birth, Life, and Death in Dublin, 1619-1798 -- Nineteenth Century Ireland -- Mortality Among Children
Summary This¡briefs examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of information¡from the census unit England and Wales, and from Ireland. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries, poems, church records and numerical accounts. They offer descriptions of the quality of life and child mortality over the three centuries under study. Additional sources for the nineteenth century are two census-derived numerical indexes of the quality of life. They are the VICQUAL index for England and Wales, and the QUALEIRE index for Ireland. Statistical procedures have been applied to the numbers provided by the sources with the aim to identify effects of and associations between such variables as gender, age, and social background. The briefs examines the results to consider the impact of¡children's deaths upon parents and families, and concludes that there are differences and¡continuities across the centuries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 5, 2018)
Subject Children -- Mortality -- England -- History
Children -- Mortality -- Ireland -- History
Children -- Death -- History
Quality of life.
Quality of Life
quality of life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Children -- Death
Children -- Mortality
Quality of life
England
Ireland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789400743908
9400743904