Human Demography and Disease

Zusammenfassung Much information on population cycles is contained in parish registers. Mathematical techniques described here can provide an insight into mortality patterns in past societies and the ways in which they are subtly influenced by levels of nutrition and by cyclical epidemics of lethal infectious diseases. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Tools for demography and epidemiology; 3. Identification of population oscillations: a case study; 4. Density-dependent control and feedback; 5. Modelling the endogenous oscillations and predictions from time-series analysis; 6. Cycles in the grain price series; 7. Interactions of exogenous cycles: a case study; 8. Mortality crises and the effects of the price of wool; 9. Modelling epidemics for the demographer: the dynamics of smallpox in London; 10. Non-linear modelling of the two-yearly epidemics in smallpox: the genesis of chaos?; 11. Measles and whooping cough in London; 12. Integration of the dynamics of infectious diseases with the demography of London; 13. Smallpox in rural towns in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; 14. Infectious diseases in England and Wales in the nineteenth century; 15. Prospectives - towards a meta-population study; References; Index.

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• Authors: C. J. Duncan, Christopher J. Duncan, Duncan C. J., Susan Scott, Susan Duncan Scott
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.07.2005
• EAN: 9780521017695
• ISBN: 978-0-521-01769-5
• No. of pages: 372
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, Human biology, Population & demography, Public health and preventive medicine