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International Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/ije/dym082
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Response: On ‘The Changing Relation between Mortality and Level of Economic Development’

Samuel H Preston

Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.

E-mail: spreston@sas.upenn.edu

Accepted 19 March 2007

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I am honoured that my 1975 article1 was thought worthy of reprinting and delighted that my own longevity curve has shifted far enough to allow me to respond to commentators. They have done an excellent job of placing the article in the context of previous and subsequent work and pointing out its strengths and weaknesses.

Inevitably, the article is to compared to the work of Thomas McKeown. Although my article and the book that included it2 were published at about the same time as McKeown's volume,3 McKeown's thesis was already well-known through the pages of Population Studies, the same journal in which my article was published. I was therefore able . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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