# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-mckeown
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:33:49.980Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-mckeown"
name: "Thomas McKeown"
slug: "thomas-mckeown"
description: "Thomas McKeown (1912–1988) was a British physician, epidemiologist and historian of medicine. Largely based on demographic data from England and Wales, McKeown argued that the population growth since the late eighteenth century was due to improving economic conditions, i.e. better nutrition, rather than to better hygiene, public health measures, and improved medicine. This became known as the \"McKeown thesis\"."
tagline: "British historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1912-11-02"
deathDate: "1988-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.24
  momentum:             0.09036144578313253
  historical:           5.478726666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_McKeown_(physician)"
    title: "Thomas McKeown (physician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "توماس ماكيون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%85%DA%A9_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B7%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%A8)"
    title: "توماس مک کیون (طبیب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D1%8C%D1%8E%D1%8D%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81_(%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%87)"
    title: "Маккьюэн, Томас (врач)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3"
    title: "トマス・マキューン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_McKeown"
    title: "Thomas McKeown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11321386"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump