title: The social bases of declining infant mortality: lessons from a nineteenth-century Italian town.
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Hogan
authors.forename: D I
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Kertzer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D000383:Agriculture; D001719:Birth Certificates; D001903:Bottle Feeding; D001942:Breast Feeding; D019352:Censuses; D002669:Child Welfare; D003644:Death Certificates; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004522:Educational Status; D005060:Europe; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005843:Geography; D006262:Health; D007221:Industry; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007558:Italy; D009026:Mortality; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011204:Poverty Areas; D011634:Public Health; D012098:Reproduction; D012106:Research; D012923:Social Class; D012942:Social Sciences; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization; D014798:Vital Statistics; D014930:Women
keywords: Age Factors; Agriculture; Birth Records; Bottle Feeding; Breast Feeding; Census; Child Health; Death Records; Demographic Factors; Demography; Developed Countries; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Educational Status; Europe; Family And Household; Geographic Factors; Health; Heterogeneity; High Risk Women; Historical Demography; Households; Industrialization; Infant; Infant Mortality--history; Infant Nutrition; Italy; Literacy; Macroeconomic Factors; Mediterranean Countries; Mortality; Neonatal Mortality; Nutrition; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Population Statistics; Public Health; Reproduction; Research Methodology; Slums; Social Sciences; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Southern Europe; Spatial Distribution; Urban Spatial Distribution; Urbanization; Vital Statistics; Youth