Infant mortality : a continuing social problem / edited by Eilidh Garrett ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garrett, Eilidh.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infants--Mortality--Great Britain.

Infants.

Infants--Mortality--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Newman, George, Sir, 1870-1948. Infant mortality.

Newman, George.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Commemorating 100 years since the publication of Sir George Newman's 'Infant Mortality: A Social Problem', this volume evaluates Newman's critical contribution, reviews current understandings of the history of infant and early childhood mortality and discusses modern approaches to infant health as a continuing social problem. It also proposes new ways of defining and tackling the problem of persistent mortality differentials.

Contents:

Infant mortality : a social problem? / Eilidh Garrett ... [et al.]

George Newman

a life in public health / Chris Galley

Newman's Infant mortality as an agenda for research / Robert Woods

Place and status as determinants of infant mortality in England c.1550-1837 / Richard Smith and Jim Oeppen

A double penalty? : infant mortality in the Lincolnshire Fens, 1870-1900 / Sam Sneddon

Infant mortality in Northamptonshire : a vaccination register study / Tricia James

Urban-rural differences in infant mortality : a view from the death registers of Skye and Kilmarnock, Scotland / Eilidh Garrett

Diarrhoea : the central issue? / Eric Hall and Michael Drake

Infant mortality, a spatial problem : Notting Dale Special area in George Newman's London / Graham Mooney and Andrea Tanner

Health visitors and 'enlightened motherhood' / Alice Reid

Infant mortality and social progress in Britain, 1905-2005 / Danny Dorling

The health of infants at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Yvonne Kelly

Conclusion : the social dimension of infant well-being / Nicola Shelton.

Notes:

"A volume to mark the centenary of the 1906 publication of Infant mortality : a social problem by George Newman."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-286) and index.

ISBN:

1-003-06323-3

1-351-15562-8

1-281-10359-4

9786611103590

0-7546-8323-0

OCLC:

437113419