Gavalas Vasilis S
Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece.
J Biosoc Sci. 2008 Mar;40(2):203-22. doi: 10.1017/S0021932007002246. Epub 2007 Sep 18.
This paper explores the course of infant and childhood mortality in the Greek island of Paros from the end of the nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century. For this purpose the method of family reconstitution has been applied to two towns on the island. Official population statistics have been used to derive basic mortality estimates for the Cyclades and Greece as a whole. Reference to other studies concerning island mortality is also made. Hence, there appears the chance to compare insular with mainland mortality and realise that insular mortality presented some distinct features. It is shown that island populations presented lower mortality than the national average until the first decades of the twentieth century. However, by the 1950s Greece's infant and childhood mortality had dropped to the same or even to lower levels than those of the islands.
本文探讨了19世纪末至20世纪中叶希腊帕罗斯岛婴幼儿及儿童死亡率的变化历程。为此，家庭重构法被应用于该岛的两个城镇。官方人口统计数据被用于得出基克拉泽斯群岛及整个希腊的基本死亡率估计值。同时也参考了其他有关岛屿死亡率的研究。因此，就有机会比较岛屿与大陆的死亡率，并认识到岛屿死亡率呈现出一些独特特征。研究表明，直到20世纪的前几十年，岛屿人口的死亡率低于全国平均水平。然而，到了20世纪50年代，希腊的婴幼儿及儿童死亡率已降至与岛屿相同甚至更低的水平。
