Living Standards, Nutrition and Inequality in the Spanish Industrialisation. An Anthropometric View

Marttnez-Carriin, Joss-Miguel

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3111647

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“…Previous and subsequent cohorts to those born during the 1920s were able to partially compensate the significant nutritional deficiencies associated with the above-described contexts. Specifically, the average height of the cohorts born after the 1950s (within a context of food security for the majority of the population) reflects the rapid progress of the country within the framework of nutritional and epidemiological transition (Spijker et al 2012;Martínez-Carrión 2016).…”

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Height and Inequality in Spain: A Long-Term Perspective

Cámara¹,

Martínez-Carrión

Puche

et al. 2019

RHE / JILAEH

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This article analyses the evolution of nutritional inequality in Spain among cohorts born between 1840 and 1964. With male height data (N = 358,253), the secular trend of biological well-being and intergenerational anthropometric inequalities are studied based on the coefficient of variation, height percentiles and socioeconomic categories (students, literate non-students and illiterate). The results reveal that the nutritional inequalities were very large in the mid-19th century. Anthropometric inequalities diminished among those born between 1880 and 1919 and increased again, although only moderately, from the cohorts of the 1920s. From the 1930s there was a cycle of sustained increase in height. Despite nutritional improvement, the data suggest that nutritional inequalities increased during the Franco regime, affecting the low-income population segments particularly.

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Section: Results Height Trends and Differentials Approaching Socioecmentioning

confidence: 99%

Height and Inequality in Spain: A Long-Term Perspective

Cámara¹,

Martínez-Carrión

Puche

et al. 2019

RHE / JILAEH

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“…However, it is less clear whether or not this period of massive economic growth resulted in better biological standards of living. There are no published studies on adult height (or any other aspect of physical well-being) in 19 th -century Chile, as there are for other Latin American (see below) and Iberian countries (e.g.María-Dolores and Martínez-Carrión 2011; Martínez-Carrión 2016). The only available work on Chile is that of Núñez and Pérez (2015), but it deals with height in boys rather than in adult men, and with a later period (post-1880).…”

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THE PHYSICAL STATURE OF MEN IN 19^TH-CENTURY CHILE: ANOTHER CASE OF STAGNATION DURING AN EXPORT BOOM

2018

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This article provides the first series of adult male height for 19th-century Chile. Our aim was not only to assess the trends indicated by height during this period, but also the relationship between stature and both GDP per capita and exports. Having analysed our data, our primary conclusion is that there was a reduction in height for cohorts born in the 1850s and 1860s with respect to cohorts born between 1820 and 1840. Height stagnated thereafter, with small to no improvement towards the end of the 19th century, in line with other Latin American countries for which there is comparable evidence. The increase in per capita GDP and exports during the second half of the century did not result in better biological welfare, as was the case in other Latin American countries during similar export booms.

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“…As a contribution to the analysis of socio-economic determinants of inequality in health, this study focuses on secular trends and social differences in adult height of conscripts born between 1916 and 1953 in the city of Madrid, Spain, a period of deep socio-economic changes and intense socio-political turmoil, including the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and the dictatorship of General Franco that lasted through four decades. There is in Spain a well-developed field of research for the study of secular trends in anthropometric and physiological indicators during the past 150 years, including the evaluation of differences in adult height determined by social inequalities (for a review, see [18]), and by urban vs. rural residence, especially the so-called “urban penalty” [19]. However, there are only limited studies on differences in height determined by urban social stratification.…”

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Disparities in Height and Urban Social Stratification in the First Half of the 20th Century in Madrid (Spain)

Varea

García

Bogin

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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Adult height is the most commonly used biological indicator to evaluate material and emotional conditions in which people grew up, allowing the analysis of secular trends associated with socio-economic change as well as of social inequalities among human populations. There is a lack of studies on both aspects regarding urban populations. Our study evaluates the secular trends and the disparities in height of conscripts born between 1915 and 1953 and called-up at the age of 21 between 1936 and 1969, living in districts with low versus middle and high socio-economic conditions, in the city of Madrid, Spain. We test the hypothesis that urban spatial segregation and social stratification was associated with significant differences in height. Results show that height increased significantly during the analysed period, both among conscripts living in the middle- and upper-class districts (5.85 cm) and in the lower-class districts (6.75 cm). The positive secular trend in height among conscripts from middle- and upper-class districts was sustained throughout the period, but the trend in height among the lower class fluctuated according to social, political, and economic events. Our findings support previous research that adult height is influenced strongly by the family living conditions during infancy and by community effects acting during childhood and adolescence.

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Living Standards, Nutrition and Inequality in the Spanish Industrialisation. An Anthropometric View

Cited by 14 publications

References 87 publications

Height and Inequality in Spain: A Long-Term Perspective

Height and Inequality in Spain: A Long-Term Perspective

THE PHYSICAL STATURE OF MEN IN 19^TH-CENTURY CHILE: ANOTHER CASE OF STAGNATION DURING AN EXPORT BOOM

Disparities in Height and Urban Social Stratification in the First Half of the 20th Century in Madrid (Spain)

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Living Standards, Nutrition and Inequality in the Spanish Industrialisation. An Anthropometric View

Cited by 14 publications

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Height and Inequality in Spain: A Long-Term Perspective

Height and Inequality in Spain: A Long-Term Perspective

THE PHYSICAL STATURE OF MEN IN 19TH-CENTURY CHILE: ANOTHER CASE OF STAGNATION DURING AN EXPORT BOOM

Disparities in Height and Urban Social Stratification in the First Half of the 20th Century in Madrid (Spain)

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THE PHYSICAL STATURE OF MEN IN 19^TH-CENTURY CHILE: ANOTHER CASE OF STAGNATION DURING AN EXPORT BOOM