The health transition and biological living standards: Adult height and mortality in 20th-century Spain

Jeroen J.A. Spijker, Antonio D. Cámara and Amand Blanes

Economics & Human Biology, 2012, vol. 10, issue 3, 276-288

Abstract: This paper seeks new insights concerning the health transition in 20th century Spain by analyzing both traditional (mortality-based) and alternative (anthropometric-based) health indicators. Data were drawn from national censuses, vital and cause-of-death statistics and seven National Health Surveys dating from 1987 to 2006 (almost 100,000 subjects aged 20–79 were used to compute cohort height averages). A multivariate regression analysis was performed on infant mortality and economic/historical dummy variables.

Keywords: Cohort height; Infant mortality; Health surveys; Health transition; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 J10 N00 O00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2011.08.001

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