The sick and the well: adult health in Britain during the health transition

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dc.contributor.authorRiley, Jamesen_US
dc.contributor.authorAlter, Georgeen_US
dc.contributor.editorJones, G. W.en_US
dc.contributor.editorDouglas, R. M.en_US
dc.contributor.editorCaldwell, J. C.en_US
dc.contributor.editorD'Souza, Rennieen_US
dc.date.accessioned2003-03-06en_US
dc.date.accessioned2004-05-19T13:48:18Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-05T08:34:05Z
dc.date.available2004-05-19T13:48:18Zen_US
dc.date.available2011-01-05T08:34:05Z
dc.date.created1996en_US
dc.date.issued1996en_US
dc.description.abstractUsing adult life-long histories of health experience among a group of men and women born in Britain between 1725 and 1874, this paper examines individual health during the mortality decline. The risk of initiating a new sickness declined sharply between the cohorts born in the eighteenth century and those born during 1825-74, but the average duration of each episode increased. As successive cohorts added to their life expectancy, survival time rose more sharply than did well time. Continuity rather than change is apparent in another aspect of their health experience, the capacity of prior health to predict future sickness and wellness. Among the men and the women and in the eighteenth-century cohorts as well as the cohorts of 1825-74, the degree of wellness or sickness evident early in adult life strongly predicted future sick time for 15 to 20 years, and strongly predicted future sickness events for a longer period still. Moreover, women surpassed men in their propensity to hold on to the health status exhibited in early adulthood.en_US
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/41048en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/41048
dc.language.isoen_AUen_US
dc.publisherHealth Transition Centre, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National Universityen_US
dc.subjectBritainen_US
dc.subjectadult health 1725 to 1874en_US
dc.subjectsicknessen_US
dc.subjectwellnessen_US
dc.subjectfriendly societiesen_US
dc.subjectmale healthen_US
dc.subjectfemale healthen_US
dc.titleThe sick and the well: adult health in Britain during the health transitionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
local.description.refereednoen_US
local.identifier.citationnumbersuppl.en_US
local.identifier.citationpages19-44en_US
local.identifier.citationpublicationHealth Transition Reviewen_US
local.identifier.citationvolume6en_US
local.identifier.citationyear1996en_US
local.identifier.eprintid891en_US
local.rights.ispublishedyesen_US

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