NDLI: Mortality consequences of the 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward famine in China: Debilitation, selection, and mortality crossovers.

Content Provider	World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author	Song, Shige
Spatial Coverage	China
Description	Country affiliation: United States Author Affiliation: Song S ( Queens College, City University of New York, Department of Sociology, Powdermaker Hall 252, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY 11367, USA. shige.song@qc.cuny.edu)
Abstract	Using retrospective mortality records for three cohorts of newborns (1956-1958, 1959-1961, and 1962-1964) drawn from a large Chinese national fertility survey conducted in 1988, this article examines cohort mortality differences up to age 22, with the aim of identifying debilitating and selection effects of the 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward Famine. The results showed that the mortality level of the non-famine cohort caught up to and exceeded the level of the famine cohort between ages 11 and 12, suggesting both debilitating and selection effects. Multilevel multiprocess models further established a more direct connection between frailties in infancy and frailties at subsequent ages, revealing the underlying dynamics of mortality convergence between the famine and the non-famine cohorts caused by differential excess infant mortality. These results provide important new insights into the human mortality process.
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	02779536
e-ISSN	18735347
Journal	Social Science & Medicine
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	71
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier
Publisher Date	2010-08-01
Publisher Place	Great Britain (UK)
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Discipline Medicine Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects Mortality Starvation Adolescent Child, Preschool Epidemiology Cohort Studies History, 20th Century Infant Infant, Newborn Multilevel Analysis Pregnancy Retrospective Studies Survival Analysis Historical Article
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Medicine Health (social science) History and Philosophy of Science

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