Differential mortality in colonial Taiwan (1895-1945)
- By Liu Shi-yung
Pages 229 to 247
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- SHI-YUNG, Liu,
- Shi-yung, Liu.
- Shi-yung, L.
https://doi.org/10.3917/adh.107.0229
Cite this article
- Shi-yung, L.
- Shi-yung, Liu.
- SHI-YUNG, Liu,
https://doi.org/10.3917/adh.107.0229
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For the detailed number of these life tables, Shi-yung 2000a appendix 2.
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I took the numbers of tuberculosis from the governmental statistics. It is worth to note that the statistics of tuberculosis was very reliable because of the restrictive prevention. The rate of tuberculosis contributed to the mortality was calculated by the same method of previous analysis.
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Most epidemiologists suggest that in the earlier stages of the epidemiological transition increments to life expectancy come as infectious diseases decline and are replaced by deaths from degenerative illness. In the later stages of epidemiological transition, neoplasm and cardiovascular disease are major killers to the mortality. See (Omran, 1997).
Summary
Japan occupied Taiwan between 1895 and 1945. During the colonial period, the colonial government in Taiwan launched various public health reforms and declared their victory of colonization in the late 1920s. This study -using the life tables and the causes of death series- explores the ethnic-sex differential in mortality trends during the colonial years of Taiwan. The analysis of the differential mortality by sex shows that women were was more sensitive to the progress of the public health improvement. To the ethnic groups, the differential mortality between the Taiwanese and the Japanese nationals in Taiwan showed that the difference could mainly depend upon many human factors such as public health policy, immigration policy, and prevalence of health knowledge. In general, this study may contribute to identify the possible time and pattern of health transitions, and their different impacts on sexes and ethnic groups in colonial Taiwan from historical data.
Résumé
Le Japon occupa Taiwan de 1895 à 1945. Au cours de cette période, dite coloniale, le gouvernement colonial à Taiwan lança plusieurs réformes de santé publique et proclama leur réussite dès les années 1920. Cet article explore, à partir de l’exploitation des tables de mortalité et des séries des causes de décès, les différences de mortalité par origine et par sexe apparues au cours de cette phase de changement. Les femmes s’avèrent bénéficier plus que les hommes des progrès liés à l’amélioration de la santé publique. Quant à la différence entre les Taiwanais et les Japonais, elle dépend de nombreux facteurs qui vont des conséquences de la politique de santé publique, de celles de la politique d’immigration aux écarts dans la diffusion des connaissances sur la santé. À partir de données historiques, cette étude contribue à la mise en évidence des processus de differentiation qui apparaissent lors des phases de la transition épidémiologique et sanitaire.
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