Open AccessChild mortality and cohort lifespan: a test of diminished entelechy
Author(s) -
Ralph Catalano,
Tim A. Bruckner
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyl108
Subject(s) - demography , life expectancy , cohort , culling , medicine , cohort study , cohort effect , test (biology) , gerontology , offspring , biology , environmental health , population , pregnancy , ecology , herd , sociology , veterinary medicine , genetics
The literature implies a 'diminished entelechy' hypothesis in which birth cohorts subjected to relatively many or relatively virulent environmental insults early in life do not realize their otherwise expected lifespan. No direct test of this hypothesis appears in literature.
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