New Approaches to Death in Cities during the Health Transition

1. New Approaches to Death in Cities During the Health Transition: An Introduction
Michel Oris, Diego Ramiro Fariñas

Part I. Mortality Within the City: Historical Europe

2. Understanding Infant Mortality in the City: Exploring Registration and Compositional Effects. Madrid, 1905–1906
Bárbara A. Revuelta Eugercios, Diego Ramiro Fariñas

3. Environment, Housing, and Infant Mortality: Udine, 1807–1815
Alessio Fornasin, Marco Breschi, Matteo Manfredini

4. Residential Mobility and Child Mortality in Early Twentieth Century Belfast
Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett, Simon Szreter

5. Micro-Analysis of Mortality in Urban Areas. The Parish of Oliveira in Guimarães, in Northern Portugal Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Maria Norberta Amorim, Antero Ferreira, Luís Meira-Machado

Part II. Urban Mortality in Transition

6. Infant and Early Childhood Mortality in a Context of Transitional Fertility: Geneva 1800–1900
Reto Schumacher

7. A Slow Transition. Infant and Child Mortality Decline in a Sardinian Community: Alghero (1866–1935)
Marco Breschi, Massimo Esposito, Stanislao Mazzoni, Lucia Pozzi

8. The Democratization of Longevity: How the Poor Became Old in Paris, 1880–1913
Lionel Kesztenbaum, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Part III. Urban Mortality in the Developing World

9. Estimating Area-Based Influences on Urban-Rural Inequalities in Health Outcomes: A Longitudinal Multilevel Epidemiological Investigation
Barthelemy Kuate Defo

10. Will Urban and Rural Mortality Converge in Africa?
Michel Garenne

11. Urban Mortality Transitions: The Role of Slums
Günther Fink, Isabel Günther, Kenneth Hill

12. Health Disparities on the Periphery of Ouagadougou
Clémentine Rossier, Abdramane Bassiahi Soura, Bruno Lankoande, Roch Modeste Millogo

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Demography, Public Health, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)