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New Zealand in the Early Stages of the Modern Health Transition
Evan Roberts, History Programme, Victoria University of Wellington
| What | MPC Seminar Series |
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November 23, 2009 12:15 PM
November 23, 2009 01:15 PM
November 23, 2009 from 12:15 pm to 01:15 pm |
| Where | MPC Seminar Room, 50 Willey Hall |
| Contact Phone | 612-624-8806 |
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Abstract: For Europeans and their descendants, New Zealand was a relatively healthy environment during the nineteenth century. New Zealanders were relatively tall. But average stature declined in the late nineteenth century, and from the 1910s to the 1920s. The nineteenth century experience reflects the same pattern of adverse pressure on net nutrition seen in other countries. The failure of stature to rise after 1900 is noteworthy as height was rising in other overseas European populations. Despite a national myth of equality of opportunity, socioeconomic inequalities in stature widened in the early twentieth century. Similarly, disparities between European descendants and the indigenous Maori widened in the early twentieth century.
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