Geografía de la mortalidad española del siglo XIX: una exploración de sus factores determinantes
- Autores: Francesc Muñoz Pradas
- Localización: BAGE. Boletín de la Asociación Española de Geografía, ISSN-e 2605-3322, ISSN 0212-9426, Nº. 40, 2005, págs. 269-310
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
Spanish mortality in the 19th century was a kind of traditional mortality pattern. This paper aims to understand that mortality system from a spatial perspective. The first stage will focus on analysing reconstructed life tables for historical Spanish regions and provinces in around 1860. The second one will be based on exploring mortality determinants, taking an explanatory framework where exposure and protection factors to mortality risks have been joined within a spatial perspective. The main results are: a) Adult and child mortality do not share a similar set of determining factors, with the exception of price fluctuations. b) Explanatory variables of child mortality, beyond the fertility effect, are related to food resources -cow milk- and population working in agriculture. c) Differences in spatial patterns of child mortality seem to be related to unequal regional distributions of certain exposure and protection factors. These effects do not hold in the case of adult mortality.
