Early Life Conditions and Rapid Demographic Changes in the Developing World

Consequences for Older Adult Health

Mary McEniry (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2016 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-017-7872-5 (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.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2016
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 ► Geriatrie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	94-017-7872-8 / 9401778728
ISBN-13	978-94-017-7872-5 / 9789401778725
Zustand	Neuware