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John Graunt at 400: Fighting disease with numbers
Author(s) -
Harkness Timandra
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/1740-9713.01421
Subject(s) - life expectancy , expectancy theory , gerontology , history , operations research , medicine , sociology , demography , psychology , engineering , population , social psychology
Demographers, epidemiologists and statisticians working today are building on foundations laid by John Graunt, a London haberdasher born in 1620, who sought to analyse the many causes of death and calculate life expectancy. By Timandra Harkness