A history of population health : rise and fall of disease in Europe / by Johan P. Mackenbach

• VerfasserIn: Mackenbach, Johan P. 1953-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2020]
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Clio medica volume 101
• Physical Description: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 430 Seiten ); Illustrationen, Diagramme
• Notes: Enthält Literaturverzeichnis auf Seite [377]-423

In A History of Population Health Johan P. Mackenbach offers a broad-sweeping study of the spectacular changes in people’s health in Europe since the early 18th century. Most of the 40 specific diseases covered in this book show a fascinating pattern of ‘rise-and-fall’, with large differences in tim...

Table of Contents

• Preface
• List of illustrations
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Utopia come true?
• Rising life expectancy
• The rise and fall of disease
• The epidemiologic transition theory
• The McKeown debate and the Preston-curve
• The role of human agency
• &;How to read this book
• Concepts, sources, data and methods
• PART I. LONG-TERM TRENDS: A BIRD’S EYE VIEW
• Chapter 2. Long-term trends in population health
• Changes in over-all population health
• Declining mortality
• Young and old, men and women
• Regional and social inequalities
• Rising height
• More years in good health, more years in bad health?
• Changes in disease patterns
• Shifting causes of death
• Shifts in the burden of disease
• Diseases rise, diseases fall
• Epidemiologic transition 2.0
• A theory in need of repair
• How: characterizing change
• When: staging change
• Where: locating change
• Chapter 3. Understanding trends in population health
• Theories of population health
• An ‘ecological-evolutionary theory’ of the origins of disease
• Explaining long-term change
• Economic, political and sociocultural conditions
• Economic history: improvements in living standards
• Political history: the rise of the modern state
• Sociocultural history: the lights go on
• Public health and medical care
• A short history of public health
• The impact of public health
• A short history of medical care
• The Role of Medicine
• PART II. ZOOMING IN: THE RISE AND FALL OF DISEASES
• Chapter 4. Health problems of pre-industrial societies
• Violence and hunger
• War
• Homicide
• Famine
• Great epidemics
• Plague
• Smallpox
• Typhus
• Malaria
• Chapter 5. Health problems of industrializing societies
• Communicable diseases
• Cholera, dysentery, typhoid
• Tuberculosis
• Syphilis
• Scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria
• Pneumonia, influenza
• Maternal, infant and perinatal mortality
• Maternal mortality
• Infant mortality
• Still-births
• Other health problems of industrializing societies
• Pellagra, rickets, goitre
• Peptic ulcer, appendicitis
• Lung diseases caused by occupational and environmental exposures
• Chapter 6. Health problems of affluent societies
• Chronic diseases
• Ischaemic heart disease
• Cerebrovascular disease
• Diabetes mellitus
• Stomach, colorectal, breast, prostate cancer
• Lung cancer
• Liver cirrhosis
• Dementia
• Depression
• Injuries
• Road traffic injuries
• Suicide
• A new plague
• AIDS
• PART III: SYNTHESIS AND OUTLOOK
• Chapter 7. Why?
• Why did European population health improve?
• The rise and fall of disease
• The role of human agency
• The role of public health and medical care
• The Rise of the West: was there a ‘prime mover’?
• Why did some countries rush ahead or lag behind?
• Northern lights: the Swedish advantage
• Dutch comfort: we were the champions
• Southern miracles: from rear-guard to forefront
• Balkan troubles: the weight of the past
• Russian roulette: the value of life
• Chapter 8. Outlook
• Feathers of Icarus
• Geopolitical instability
• Increasing inequality
• Global environmental change
• The way ahead
• The public health paradigm
• An expanding circle of concern
• Re-thinking Utopia
• By way of conclusion
• Through the telescope of history
• The European experience
• The role of politics
• The future
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• Index.