Introduction MUCH speculation and an increasing amount of empirical research has been
devoted to the issue of psychophysiological factors in the incidence of, and mortality from …

ONE of the more important reasons for obtaining knowledge of the distribution of a disease
in a population is that such knowledge provides a means by which hypotheses con-cerning …

In their introduction the authors point out that it is the influence on health of change, as
opposed to stability, of social environment that needs investigation. As their index of social …

IN THE PAST, studies carried out in the United States, as well as in other countries, tended
to agree unanimously in pointing to the existence of a pronounced inverse association …

This report examines geographic variation in the onset of the decline of ischemic heart
disease (IHD) mortality in white males aged 35-74 during the period 1968-78. Using a …

Only a short time ago the fundamental cause of declining death rates was considered to be
economic development. The history of the West pointed to a direct influence of economic …

THE use of the word" epidemiology" and the concept of what epidemi-ology as a discipline
may encompass has varied widely since the days of Peter Panum and John Snow. There …

A gradient of decreasing mortality rates from coronary heart disease with increasing physical
activity of work in middle-aged men, reported from England, is confirmed under special …

This work is of unique value. While with respect to England and Wales as a whole, official
publications enable the student of demography to make reasonably accurate comparisons …

This paper was prepared at the National Bureau of Economic Research at the request of
and with financial assistance provided by the National Center for Health Services Research …