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US Life Expectancy and Increasing Mortality Rates: An Analysis of the Crisis
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points US life expectancy is shorter than in other high‐income countries and the gap has widened dramatically over time, driven in particular by rising mortality rates that threaten the probability that youth can survive to middle age, or even adulthood.
STEVEN H. WOOLF
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Presente y futuro de las personas mayores
, 1994 Centro de Informacion y Documentacion Cientifica (CINDOC). C/Joaquin Costa, 22. 28002 Madrid.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
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Lenguaje judicial y personas mayores
Argumentos, 2020 El presente trabajo apela a un cambio en la lógica del rol tradicional de acceso a la justicia, mediante el uso del lenguaje jurídico claro, accesible y en formato de lectura fácil, destinado a adultos mayores en situación de vulnerabilidad.
Leticia Angela Zapata
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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?
History, EarlyView.Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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Indicadores estadísticos básicos 2005 [PDF]
, 2005 Se presenta una serie de indicadores básicos, en su mayor parte tomados del Instituto Nacional de Estadística, sobre la situación de las personas mayores en ...
Equipo Portal Mayores
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History, EarlyView.Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932
History, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
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