Live long in Scotland : the relative contribution of medicine and standards of living to Scotland's falling mortality rates
Between 1950 and 1999 the Scottish death rate, standardised to the 1950 population, declined from 13.1 per 1000 to 7.8 for men and from 12 per 1000 to 6.3 for women. The main aim of this thesis has been to establish the key influences on this doctrine. Thomas McKeown examined the decline of mortalit...
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University of Edinburgh
2006
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654197 |