Titre :
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Mortality consequences of the 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward famine in China : Debilitation, selection, and mortality crossovers. (2010)
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Auteurs :
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SONG (Shige) : USA. Queens College. City Universiry of New York. Department of Sociology. Flushing. NY.
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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. 71, n° 3, 2010)
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Pagination :
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551-558
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Mortalité
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Epidémiologie
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Malnutrition
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Nutrition
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Alimentation
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Chine
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Sélection
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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 98E7R0xH. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Using retrospective mortality records for three cohorts of newborns (1956-1958,1959-1961, and 1962-1964) drawn from a large Chinese national fertility survey conducted in 1988, this article examines cohort mortality differences up to age 22, with the aim of identifying debilitating and selection effects of the 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward Famine. The results showed that the mortality level of the non-famine cohort caught up to and exceeded the level of the famine cohort between ages 11 and 12, suggesting both debilitating and selection effects. Multilevel multiprocess models further established a more direct connection between frailties in infancy and frailties at subsequent ages, revealing the underlying dynamics of mortality convergence between the famine and the non-famine cohorts caused by differential excess infant mortality. These results provide important new insights into the human mortality process.
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