S.O.S. Antwerp. Intra-urban Inequalities at Death in the Port City of Antwerp, 1820-1939. Ghent University
Life expectancy in Western countries has increased enormously during the past two centuries. This rise was accompanied by a change in the cause-of-death pattern in which so-called degenerative diseases (cardiovascular diseases, cancers) gradually replaced infectious diseases (cholera, TB, etc.). The timing of this epidemiologic transition is well-known for Belgium and many other countries, but it is still unclear how this transition varied by ...