ID - 23080685 TI - The escape from hunger and premature death, 1700-2100 PY - 2004 VL - 38 SN - 0521808782 0521004888 0511214154 0511215940 0511314930 0511817649 1280515813 0511210574 0511212348 1107713587 9780511210570 9780521808781 9780521004886 9780511212345 9780511214158 9780511215940 9780511817649 9786610515813 6610515816 9781107713581 9781280515811 9780511314933 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Mortalité KW - Mortalité KW - 330.564 KW - 338 <09> KW - 364.22 KW - 364.22 Armoede. Financiele problemen. Financiele nood KW - Armoede. Financiele problemen. Financiele nood KW - 338 <09> Economische geschiedenis KW - Economische geschiedenis KW - 330.564 Verdeling van nationaal inkomen. Inkomensverdeling KW - Verdeling van nationaal inkomen. Inkomensverdeling KW - Social problems KW - World history KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - anno 1800-1999 KW - anno 2000-2099 KW - Food supply KW - Malnutrition KW - Medical care KW - Mortality KW - History. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Aliments KW - Soins médicaux KW - Approvisionnement KW - Histoire KW - Mortality, Law of KW - Death KW - Demography KW - Death (Biology) KW - Delivery of health care KW - Delivery of medical care KW - Health care KW - Health care delivery KW - Health services KW - Healthcare KW - Medical and health care industry KW - Medical services KW - Personal health services KW - Public health KW - Nutrition disorders KW - Nutrition KW - Starvation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23080685 AB - Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling study, first published in 2004, examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm. During the past three centuries, however, a synergy between improvements in productive technology and in human physiology has enabled humans to more than double their average longevity and to increase their average body size by over 50 per cent. Larger, healthier humans have contributed to the acceleration of economic growth and technological change, resulting in reduced economic inequality, declining hours of work and a corresponding increase in leisure time. Increased longevity has also brought increased demand for health care. Professor Fogel argues that health care should be viewed as the growth industry of the twenty-first century and systems of financing it should be reformed. His book will be essential reading for all those interested in economics, demography, history and health care policy. ER -