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Consanguinity in the Maltese Islands [PDF]
, 2015 Consanguineous marriages may increase the risk of some medical conditions and may be useful to examine social and other aspects. There were few such marriages in the Maltese islands until late in the 19th C when they increased until they began to decline
Wyatt, H.V.
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the gender wage gap and wage setting in the early cotton spinning factories of the industrial revolution, with a specific focus on Richard Arkwright's Lumford Mill in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The research links workers from the mill's wage books with parish baptism records to estimate ages and construct age–wage profiles in ...
Alexander Tertzakian
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Rural Entrepreneurship Policy in Estonia
Eesti Majanduspoliitilised Väitlused, 2009 This article seeks to provide an overview of the entrepreneurship policies targeted at rural areas and family undertakings. Agricultural undertakings, especially cattle breeders, have been almost ignored in the development of Estonia’s entrepreneurship ...
Maret Kirsipuu
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Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2020 This article analyses the seasonal peculiarities of infant mortality and identifies periods of children’s increased vulnerability to adverse factors during the year.
Dmitry Evgenievich Sarafanov
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The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The reason for malaria's disappearance from northwestern Europe in the early twentieth century has long been discussed but remains an unresolved conundrum. This is partially due to a previous focus on the early modern era, and partially because various theories have never been tested against each other.
Mathias Mølbak Ingholt +3 more
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Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2020 Background: Teenage pregnancy prevalence is at 25%, 16% of Ugandan women are married by the age of 15 years, and 53% by the age of 18 years. Available information reveals that teenage pregnancies carry a higher health risk and girls under 15 years are
Hubert Nkabura
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The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We estimate the impact of reductions in poor law expenditure on rural life expectancy and mortality rates in England and Wales following the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. Given the scale of cuts imposed, our estimates imply 8–10 per cent increases in mortality at ages 1–4 years and 2–4 per cent falls in rural expectation of life at birth.
David Green +3 more
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Personal names in the Parish register from Kvaderna kapitula lovranskog
Zbornik Lovranšćine, 2014 The introductory part of the paper consists of notes on personal names, parish registers and Kvaderna kapitula lovranskog. The main part of the work gives a statistical and structural analysis of personal name data from the parish register which is an ...
Anđela Frančić
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Historical Life Course StudiesAssessing the precision of causes of death is essential for gaining a clearer understanding of past disease incidence and its evolution. This study introduces a novel lexicographical approach to examining childhood mortality in the port city of Palma ...
Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora +1 more
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Fertility decline in North-Central Namibia [PDF]
This study examines fertility decline in North-Central Namibia in the period 1960-2000. A Scandinavian-type parish-register system, established in the beginning of 20th Century and still in use, provided register-based data for fertility analysis ...
Harri Siiskonen +2 more
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