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Call for Papers
International Seminar on The Emergence of Social Differences in Mortality:
Time Trends, Causes, and Reactions
Alghero, Italy, 29-30 May 2008
Organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Historical Demography in
cooperation with the Società Italiana di Demografia Storica (SIDES), the
University of Sassari and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic
Institute (NIDI).
Deadline for submission of abstract: 1 October 2007.
Since the 1980s, socioeconomic inequality in adult mortality has become a
key topic for epidemiologists, demographers and policy makers. A number of
studies reported a widening of socioeconomic inequalities in mortality since
the 1960s and as a consequence, the study of trends in socioeconomic
inequalities in mortality became an important issue. Most of these studies
have a very limited time horizon making it difficult to assess the direction
of the trend. This International Seminar will bring together demographers,
historians, epidemiologists, and social and political scientists who are
interested in long-term trends in socioeconomic mortality differences, in
particularly among the adult and elderly population, and in the political
and societal reactions to these differences. The focus is mainly on the 19th
and first half of the 20th centuries. We welcome contributions relating to a
variety of settings and regions, from researchers in both developed and
developing countries. Papers may be country-specific or comparative.
Especially encouraged are contributions on the changes over time in the
relationship between mortality, social class and gender, on the relationship
between locality and social class differences in mortality, including
studies using multi-level and event history models that account for temporal
variations of contextual effects and papers that will account for the
temporal variations of the contextual effects over long periods of time. We
are interested in the mechanisms between socioeconomic position and
mortality, i.e. whether the gradient is due to income and wealth, housing,
education, etc. We also are interested in the way in which the academic and
political world historically has stimulated research in this field and or
reacted to research findings. Contributions might be based on re-analysis of
published statistical data, on analyses on newly-collected information from
micro-data and on more qualitative sources.
A full announcement and description of this seminar is available at
http://www.iussp.org/Activities/hisdem/call08.php
The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Historical Demography invites researchers in
the field to submit a 200-word abstract and curriculum vitae before 1
October 2007 to Frans van Poppel ([log in to unmask]) with a copy to Madeleine
Jarl ([log in to unmask]). Abstracts must be submitted in English only
and the working language at the meeting is English. Invitations to attend
the seminar will be issued, based on the outcome of submitted abstracts, by
1 November 2007. Participants will be expected to submit their complete
paper by 1 May 2008.
For further information, please contact Frans van Poppel ([log in to unmask]).
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