Titre :
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Early-life effects on socio-economic performance and mortality in later life : A full life course approach using contemporary and historical sources. Long-term mortality consequences of childhood family context in Liaoning, China, 1749-1909. (2009)
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Auteurs :
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CAMPBELL (Cameron-D) : USA. Cameron Campbell. Department of Sociology. Ucla. Los Angeles. CA. ;
BENGTSSON (Tommy) / éd. : SWE. Cente for Economic Demography and Department of Economic History. Lund University. School of Economics and Management. Lund. ;
LEE (James-Z) : USA. University of Michigan. Michigan. ;
MINEAU (Geraldine-P) / éd. : USA. Hunstman Cancer Institute. University of Utah. Oncological Sciences. Salt Lake City. UT.
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Social science and medicine (vol. 68, n° 9, 2009)
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Pagination :
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1641-1648
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Long terme
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Mortalité
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Epidémiologie
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Mortalité infantile
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Enfant
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Famille
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Chine
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Historique
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Homme
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Asie
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS lt8qR0xJ. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. We examine the effects on adult and old age mortality of childhood living arrangements and other aspects of family context in early life. We focus on features of family context that have already been shown to be associated with infant or child mortality in historical and developing country populations. We apply discrete-time event-history analysis to longitudinal, individual-level household register data for a rural population in northeast China from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Loss of a mother in childhood, a short preceding birth interval, and high maternal age were all associated with elevated mortality risks later in life. Such effects persist in a model with fixed effects that account for unobserved characteristics of the community and household. An important implication of these results is that in high-mortality populations, features of early-life family context that are associated with elevated infant and child mortality may also predict adverse mortality outcomes in adulthood.
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