Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of death worldwide, with 1.5 million deaths in 2020.
While TB incidence and mortality had previously been on a downwards trend, in 2020, TB …

Much of paleodemography, an interdisciplinary field with strong ties to archaeology, among
other disciplines, is oriented toward clarifying the life experiences of past people and why …

Excess mortality has been used to measure the impact of COVID-19 over time and across
countries. But what baseline should be chosen? We propose two novel approaches: an …

Since the 1970s, influential literature has been using famines as natural experiments to
examine the long-term health impact of prenatal famine exposure at the individual level …

Background Periods of extreme food shortages during war force people to eat food that they
normally do not consider edible. The last time that countries in Western Europe experienced …

Background Weight for height has been used in the past as an indicator of obesity to report
that prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine of 1944–1945 determined subsequent obesity …

Prior research on early‐life exposures to famine has established in utero development as a
critical period of vulnerability to malnutrition. Yet, previous research tends to focus narrowly …

Precise estimates of the impact of famine on infant and child mortality are rare due to lack of
representative data. Using vital statistics reports on the Netherlands for 1935–47, we …

There are various methods and services which help elders protect their independency and
ability and take care. Like aging in place (AIP), that is a home and community-based model …

This paper investigates health impacts at the end of adolescence of prenatal exposure to
multiple shocks, by exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At …