Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
The Puerto Rico Journal of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Author: Puerto Rico Journal of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Author: Puerto Rico Journal of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Author: Porto Rico Journal of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Author: Agrarian Puerto Rico
Author: César J. AyalaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108488463
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Challenges dominant interpretations of colonialism's impact on the economy and social structuring of a US-owned Caribbean colony.
Early Life Conditions and Rapid Demographic Changes in the Developing World
Author: Mary McEniryPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400769792
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This book examines the long term consequences of improvements in life expectancy in the mid 20th century which are partly responsible for the growth of the elderly population in the developing world. Rapid demographic changes in child and infant mortality due to the reduction in and better treatment of disease were not often accompanied by parallel increases in standard of living. Lower mortality led to greater survival by those who had suffered poor early life conditions. As a consequence, the early life of these survivors may explain older adult health and in particular the projected increase in adult health disease and diabetes. Recent dietary changes may only compound such early life effects. This study presents findings from historical and survey data on nearly 147,000 older adults in 20 low-, middle- and high-income countries which suggest that the survivors of poor early life conditions born during the 1930s-1960s are susceptible to disease later in life, specifically diabetes and heart disease. As the evidence that the aging process is shaped throughout the entire life course increases, this book adds to the knowledge regarding early life events and older adult health.
Index of NLM Serial Titles
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.
Miscellaneous Publication
Author: Public Health Service Publication
Author: United States. Public Health ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Puerto Rico
Author: Gordon K. LewisPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0853453233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
"Since its first publication over forty years ago Puerto Rico: Freedom and Power in the Caribbean by Gordon K. Lewis has established itself, and even today, remains the definitive book on that Caribbean island. Lewis treats the subject historically and descriptively; on the one hand, it is an account of Puerto Rico as a colony, first under Spain and after 1898, under the United States. On the other hand, it is a systematic analysis of contemporary Puerto Rican life, including its politics, economic organisation and socio-political make-up, which is as relevant for this new edition as it was forty years ago. The book is also an in-depth attempt to show the political, social, cultural and even the psychological dimensions of American imperialism, rather than a mere case study of US Federalism or as a so-called 'showcase of democracy'."--BOOK JACKET.