Chapter 1 New Approaches to Death in Cities During the Health Transition: An Introduction

Chapter 2 Understanding Infant Mortality in the City: Exploring Registration and Compositional Effects. Madrid, 1905–1906

Chapter 3 Environment, Housing, and Infant Mortality: Udine, 1807–1815

Chapter 5 Micro-Analysis of Mortality in Urban Areas. The Parish of Oliveira in Guimarães, in Northern Portugal Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Chapter 6 Infant and Early Childhood Mortality in a Context of Transitional Fertility: Geneva 1800–1900

Chapter 7 A Slow Transition. Infant and Child Mortality Decline in a Sardinian Community: Alghero (1866–1935)

Chapter 8 The Democratization of Longevity: How the Poor Became Old in Paris, 1880–1913

Chapter 9 Estimating Area-Based Influences on Urban-Rural Inequalities in Health Outcomes: A Longitudinal Multilevel Epidemiological Investigation

Chapter 10 Will Urban and Rural Mortality Converge in Africa?

Chapter 11 Urban Mortality Transitions: The Role of Slums

Chapter 12 Health Disparities on the Periphery of Ouagadougou