Urban sanitation and the decline of mortality
Harris, Bernard and Helgertz, Jonas (2019) Urban sanitation and the decline of mortality. The History of the Family, 24 (2). pp. 207-226. ISSN 1873-5398 (https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2019.1605923)
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Abstract
This paper introduces a special issue of The History of the Family on sanitation and urban mortality. The special issue contains papers which focus on the impact of sanitary reforms on mortality change in Australia, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, and England and Wales. The current paper outlines the main features of the debate over the causes of mortality change and the role played by sanitary reforms in this. It then highlights some of the methodological and other challenges posed by the definition of ‘urban’ areas, the identification of relevant sanitary reforms, and the choice of dependent variables. The paper then proceeds to summarise the main features of the individual papers before drawing some conclusions for future research.
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Harris, Bernard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7118-1118 and Helgertz, Jonas;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 67564 Dates: DateEvent10 June 2019Published10 June 2019Published Online8 April 2019AcceptedSubjects: History General and Old World > History (General) Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Policy
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS)Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 12 Apr 2019 10:42 Last modified: 20 Sep 2024 00:39 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/67564