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Abstract
The author analyzes excess female mortality in nineteenth-century England. She concludes that such mortality was affected by the economic environment and that "much literary evidence points to unequal access to food and a resulting susceptibility to epidemic and respiratory diseases as the transmission mechanism converting dependence and discrimination into relatively high death rates." Women were also adversely affected by harsh labor conditions, in addition to the heavy duties involved in motherhood and housework. excerptEntities:
Keywords: Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Differential Mortality; Economic Factors; Employment--women; England; Europe; Excess Mortality--women; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Relationships; Health; Historical Survey; Housework; Macroeconomic Factors; Maternal Health--history; Microeconomic Factors; Mortality; Mothers; Northern Europe; Nutrition--women; Parents; Population; Population Dynamics; Social Discrimination; Social Problems; United Kingdom
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Year: 1991 PMID： 12344004 DOI： 10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a035183
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cambridge J Econ ISSN： 0309-166X