Biological and Social Aspects of Mortality and the Length of Life
İÇİNDEKİLERCONTENTS Introduction Samuel H. Preston 1 Mortality differentials among human groups Hugo Behm and Jacques Vallin ..................................... PART I. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON MORTALITY 2 Biological contamination of the environment by man W.H. Mosley ...................................................... 3 Mortality effects of physical and chemical contamination of the environment Iwao M. Moriyama 4 Malnutrition, infection and infant mortality Giorgio R. Solimano and Marty Vine............................... 5 Weaning: nutrition, morbidity, and mortality consequences Beverly Winikoff................................................. 6 Rural structures, food production and distribution David Baytelman .................................................. 7 Mortality and working conditions in industry John R. Goldsmith ................................................ 8 Mortality and working conditions in agriculture in developing countries Asa Cristina Laurell ............................................. PART II. BIOLOGICAL AND GENETIC INFLUENCES ON MORTALITY 9 Biological aspects of aging Leonard Hayflick ................................................. 10 Immunoregulation and aging Roy L. Walford ................................................... 11 The genetic clock-hormone theory of aging Arthur V. Everitt 12 Heritability of human longevity Albert Jacquard 13 Bio-mathematical models of mortality Bruno de Finetti and Carla Rossi 14 Biological determinants of early life mortality Nora Federici and Luciano Terrenato 15 Demographic trends in postwar Japan: a genetic perspective on their mortality impact William J. Schull and Yoshimichi Ochi 16 Morbidity and the major processes culminating in death J.N. Biraben...................................... PART III. BEHAVIORAL INFLUENCES ON MORTALITY 17 Epidemiology of over-nutrition A. Stevart Truswell 18 Alcohol use and mortality Kari Poikolainen 19 Smoking and mortality Bernard Benjamin 20 Personal behaviour affecting mortality Nedra B. Belloc NOTLARProceeding of a Seminar at Fiuggi, Italy, May 13 - 16, 1980 |
