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Ageing, Sickness and Health in England and Wales during the Mortality Transition (2011)

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Mortality Disease and diseases Public health Health Aging 20th century 19th century Wales England

During the second half of the nineteenth century, friendly-society actuaries became increasingly concerned about an apparent increase in recorded morbidity. They attributed this increase to changes in sickness behaviour and a decline in the societies' ability to police sickness claims. These arguments have been echoed by a number of historians but others have suggested that the increase represented a real change in sickness experience. This paper addresses these arguments in three ways. It begins by exploring contemporary debates over morbidity change between 1870 and 1914. It then revisits the data on which many of these arguments were based. Finally, it presents new data from a recent study of the Hampshire Friendly Society, which shed fresh light on the pattern of age-specific morbidity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Authors & Contributors
Yu, Han
Fornasin, Alessio
Manfredini, Matteo
Breschi, Marco
Muigai, Wangui
Mazzoni, Stanislao
Journals
Social Science History
Medical History
Social History of Medicine
Public Understanding of Science
Journal of Historical Geography
History of Psychiatry
Publishers
Open University (United Kingdom)
Emory University
University of Rochester Press
Routledge
Cornell University Press
Columbia University Press
Concepts
Public health
Disease and diseases
Mortality
Health
Medicine
Medicine and society
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
England
Wales
Great Britain
United States
Philadelphia, PA
Indian Ocean
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