Human Demography and Disease

By C J Duncan, Susan Scott, Duncan C J, et al.

Book Overview

Human Demography and Disease offers an interdisciplinary and integrated perspective on the relationship between historical populations and the dynamics of epidemiological processes. It brings the techniques of time-series analysis and computer matrix modeling to historical demography and geography to extract detailed information concerning the oscillations in births, deaths, migrations and epidemics. This book presents a new way of studying preindustrial communities and explores the subtle, and hitherto undetected effects of fluctuating nutritional levels on mortality patterns and the dynamics of infectious diseases.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052162052X
• ISBN13: 9780521620529
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"