a ISBN 0-485-11563-8

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number HB849.4

b Item number .B823 2001

a Title Brass tacks :

b Remainder of title essays in medical demography : a tribute to the memory of Professor William Brass /

c Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Basia Zaba and John Blacker.

h Medium BOOK

a Title proper/short title Essays in medical demography

a Title proper/short title Tribute to the memory of Professor William Brass

a Place of publication, distribution, etc London ;

a Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Athlone Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2001.

a Extent xi, 301 p. :

b Other physical details ill. ;

c Dimensions 25 cm.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.

a Formatted contents note Introduction / Griffith Feeney -- Sect. 1. Demographic Estimation. 1. Child mortality estimation by time since first birth / Kenneth Hill and Maria-Elena Figueroa. 2. Adjustment methods for bias in indirect childhood mortality estimates / Martine Collumbien and Andy Sloggett. 3. Estimation of adult mortality from data on adult siblings / Ian Timaeus, Basia Zaba and Mohamed Ali -- Sect. 2. Bio-Demography. 4. Use of biomarkers in population-based studies of reproductive function and reproductive health / Ronald H. Gray. 5. HIV infection in women and children / Marie-Louise Newell -- Sect. 3. Developing Country Demography. 6. Evidence of changes in family formation patterns in Pakistan? / Fatima Juarez and Zeba A. Sathar. 7. A comparative analysis of fertility in Arab countries: Explaining the anomalies / Hoda Rashad. 8. Fertility trends and population policy in Kenya / S. M. Macrae, E. K. Bauni and J. G. C. Blacker. 9. Populations of the Northern Sahel: demographic problems and solutions / Sara Randall -- Sect. 4. Developed Country Demography. 10. Accessions and abdications: men and women as family markers in linked data for England and Wales / Lynda Clarke and Heather Joshi. 11. A novel method of comparing regional trends in infant mortality applied to Italy 1950-89 / John Osborn, Angela Spinelli and Maria Sofia Cattaruzza. 12. Demographic and socio-economic data in general practice in Britain; discussed using data from East London / Kath Moser and Sandra Eldridge. 13. Health, health care and death among older adults in England and Wales: a hundred years' perspective / Emily Grundy.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Medical statistics

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Demography

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Fertility

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social medicine

a Genre/form data or focus term Festschrift.

a Personal name Brass William

a Personal name Zaba Basia

a Personal name Blacker John

d Dates associated with a name 1929