Title Studies in the quality of life in Victorian Britain and Ireland / by Thomas E. Jordan

Published Dordrecht : Springer, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Series SpringerBriefs in well-being and quality of life research SpringerBriefs in well-being and quality of life research. Contents Housing as Quality of Life: Dublin, 1798-1821 -- The Anthropometric Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1875-1883 -- Mars and Hygeia: The Application of Victorian Army Data on Height to the Quality of Health in the British Population -- The Great Contrast: Factor Analysis Applied to Quality of Life in the Era of the Irish Famine -- Victorian Economic Change and Heights: A Note on Lagged Effects -- A Quality of Life: Accessing Seventeenth Century Data--The Example of Dublin -- An Overview Summary This work 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 Analysis gezondheid health kwaliteit van het leven quality of life psychologie psychology sociale wetenschappen social sciences Social Sciences (General) Sociale wetenschappen (algemeen) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject Children -- Mortality -- Great Britain -- History Children -- Mortality -- Ireland -- History Children -- Mortality -- Regional disparities -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography. Droit. Sciences sociales. Sciences humaines. Children -- Mortality Great Britain Ireland Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9789400761223 9400761228

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