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Early Life Conditions and Rapid Demographic Changes in the Developing World

Consequences for Older Adult Health

Mary McEniry (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2013 | 2014 ed.
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-007-6978-6 (ISBN)

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This book examines the long term consequences of improvements in life expectancy in the mid 20th century which are partly responsible for the growth of the elderly population in the developing world. Rapid demographic changes in child and infant mortality due to the reduction in and better treatment of disease were not often accompanied by parallel increases in standard of living. Lower mortality led to greater survival by those who had suffered poor early life conditions. As a consequence, the early life of these survivors may explain older adult health and in particular the projected increase in adult health disease and diabetes. Recent dietary changes may only compound such early life effects. This study presents findings from historical and survey data on nearly 147,000 older adults in 20 low-, middle- and high-income countries which suggest that the survivors of poor early life conditions born during the 1930s-1960s are susceptible to disease later in life, specifically diabetes and heart disease. As the evidence that the aging process is shaped throughout the entire life course increases, this book adds to the knowledge regarding early life events and older adult health.

1: Aging Populations and the Determinants of Older Adult Health.- 2: A Contrarian Conjecture, Road Map, Ideal Data, Approach.- 3: Data Sources, Measures, Validity, and a Description of the Older Adult Population.- 4: Cross-National Morbidity Patterns.- 5: Cross-National Mortality Patterns and Health Disparties.- 6: Tide, Trick or Flow.- Appendices.- References.- Index.

Zusatzinfo	33 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 216 p. 33 illus.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Adult health disease and diabetes • Changes in child and infant mortality • Chronic conditions (heart disease, diabetes, obesity) • Cross national survey data • Determinants of older adult health • Early life conditions • Effects poor early life conditions on adult health • Functionality and disability • Growth of the elderly population • Improvements in life expectancy • Mortality regimes in the 20th century • Older adult health in Low and Middle Income Countries • Older adult population across mortality regimes • Population studies of older adults • Public health initiatives and medical technology • Reduction and better treatment of disease • Susceptible to disease later in life • Well-being of older adults
ISBN-10	94-007-6978-4 / 9400769784
ISBN-13	978-94-007-6978-6 / 9789400769786
Zustand	Neuware