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Health and Mortality in the 19th-Century Rural U.S.: the Second Epidemiological Transition in Madison County, NY (2024)
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This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since the mid-19th century, many populations have experienced changes in cause-of-death structures (often called the second epidemiological transition) characterized by a decline in infectious disease deaths and an increase in deaths from non-communicable diseases. This shift is associated with a demographic transition toward increased life expectancies. There is evidence that the...