Inequality and Nutritional Transition in Economic History (eBook, ePUB)

Spain in the 19th-21st Centuries
Redaktion: Medina-Albaladejo, Francisco J.; Calatayud, Salvador; Martínez-Carrión, José Miguel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Food consumption and nutrition are historically among the most characteristic features of inequality in living standards. Nutrition directly impacts mortality, life expectancy, height and illness. However, one issue that remains unresolved is how to measure past diet inequalities with the available sources. This book tackles these.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000864519
• Artikelnr.: 67497477

Autorenporträt

Francisco J. Medina-Albaladejo., PhD in Economic History (Autonomus University of Barcelona, Spain, 2011). Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Valencia, Spain. His research addresses various topics within the field of economic and social history: agricultural and consumer co-operatives and their relationship with the industrialization of the food sector and the improvement of living standards; and the development of the nutritional transition in Spain. He has published in international journals such as Economic History Review, European Review of Economic History, Business History, Enterprise & Society, International Review of Social History or Journal of Wine Research. More information at: https://www.ehvalencia.es/en/francisco-j-medina-albaladejo-en/. José Miguel Martínez-Carrión., PhD in History and Professor of Economic History and Institutions at the University of Murcia. He has researched different fields: historical demography, agricultural history and anthropometric history. He has been the editor of the journal Historia Agraria and the Secretary-General elect of the Spanish Association of Economic History (AEHE). He is the coordinator of the network Standards of Living, Health, Nutrition and Inequality (NISALDes) and the founder of the Ibero-American Network of Anthropometric History (RedIBEHA). His latest papers have been published in American Journal of Human Biology, Social Science & Medicine, Economics and Human Biology and Social Science History . More information at: https://webs.um.es/jcarrion/. Salvador Calatayud., PhD in Geography and History. Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Valencia. His research addresses various topics within the field of economic and social history: rural history; food history; water use in agriculture; institutional change in the building of the Modern State in Spain. He has published in national and international journals such as Economic History Review, Rural History, Historia Agraria, Nutrición Hospitalaria and Ayer. More information at: https://www.ehvalencia.es/en/salvador-calatayud-giner-en/.

Inhaltsangabe

Inequality and nutritional transition in economic history: Spain between
the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. New research and findings 1.
Diet and social inequality at the beginning of the nutritional transition
in Mediterranean Spane, 1822-1936 2. The rural-urban gap in nutritional
status during the first phases of modern economic growth in Spain,
1836-1936 3. The nutritional status of the Spanish population, 1860-2020:
an approach to consider differences by sex and generations 4. Poor but
tall. The height premium in the Canary Islands at the beginning of
nutritional transition 5. Secular trends in height in Madrid (cohorts
1915-1953). An approach to urban stratification and SEPE factors
differences in Spain during the twentieth century 6. Food and nutrition of
the soldiers of the Spanish Armed Forces (1940-1972) 7. Malnutrition and
regional inequalities in the context of a period of economic growth in
Spain (1964-1972): rural food surveys 8. From massification to
diversification: inequalities in the consumption of dairy products, meat
and alcoholic drinks in Spain (1964-2018) 9. Inequality, health, and
nutrition in Spain: a regional and sociodemographic view of the body mass
index 10. Inequalities in the patterns of the consumption of healthy food
during the Great Recession of 2008