Demography and Nutrition covers the impact on demography of the nutrition of populations, offering the view that the change from the hunter-gatherer to an agricultural life-style had a majoy impact on human demography, which still has repercussions today.

Demography and Nutrition takes an interdisciplinary approach, involving time-series analyses, mathematical modelling, aggregative analysis and family reconstitution as well as anaylsis of data series from Third World countries in the 20th century.

Contents

1. Mortality Oscillations in 404 English Parishes—A Metapopulation Study
2. The Staple Food Supply: Fluctuating Wheat Prices and Malnutrition
3. Famine
4. Long-term Demographic Effects of Even a Small Famine
5. Fertility
6. Nutrition and Pregnancy
7. Infancy
8. Infant Mortality
9. Exogenous Cycles: A Case Study
10. The Amelioration of Infant Mortality in Rural England
11. Iodine Deficiency and Endogenous Mortality
12. Seasonality
13. Sex Ratios
14. Childhood Mortality and Infectious Diseases
15. Population Dynamics, Disease and Malnutrition in the 19th Century in England
16. Ageing

Index

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