Spatial disparities at death. Age-, sex- and disease-specific mortality in the districts of Belgium at the beginning of the twentieth century
At the beginning of the twentieth century, life expectancy at birth was much lower in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, than in Wallonia, the southern part of the country. In the literature, this excess mortality is mainly attributed to high levels of infant mortality caused by bad feeding pra...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Espace populations sociétés |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/eps/7439 |