Thomas McKeown
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Thomas McKeown (1912-1988) was a British physician, epidemiologist and historian of medicine. e. better nutrition, rather than to better hygiene, public health measures, and improved medicine. This became known as the "McKeown thesis".
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Thomas McKeown. The Origins of Human Disease. Original book cover, Basil Blackwell/Oxford, 1988.![Population size, birth rate and death rate in the Netherlands from 1805 to 2022. Pre-industrial mortality and fertility showed major swings, largely dependent on period of prosperity, poverty, starvation and cholera epidemics until ~1870. Next, the mortality rate decreased more than the fertility rate, leading to a surge in population growth. The mortality peaks in the last year of the First and Second World Wars, are followed by birth peaks in the following year. (Merged data from Horlings, 1993 and Drukker & van Tassenaar, 1997 for data of the 19th century, and CBS-Statistics Netherlands for data since 1900)[30][31][32]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Births_Deaths_Population_Netherlands_1805-2022.png/1280px-Births_Deaths_Population_Netherlands_1805-2022.png)
Population size, birth rate and death rate in the Netherlands from 1805 to 2022. Pre-industrial mortality and fertility showed major swings, largely dependent on period of prosperity, poverty, starvation and cholera epidemics until ~1870. Next, the mortality rate decreased more than the fertility rate, leading to a surge in population growth. The mortality peaks in the last year of the First and Second World Wars, are followed by birth peaks in the following year. (Merged data from Horlings, 1993 and Drukker & van Tassenaar, 1997 for data of the 19th century, and CBS-Statistics Netherlands for data since 1900)[30][31][32]![Gross National Income (GNI) per capita and life expectancy in 59 countries (on a log scale; WHO-data collected by Klenk et al., 2016)[37]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/GNI_and_Life_Expectancy_log_scale.png/1280px-GNI_and_Life_Expectancy_log_scale.png)
Gross National Income (GNI) per capita and life expectancy in 59 countries (on a log scale; WHO-data collected by Klenk et al., 2016)[37]![Average calorie intake and body length of Dutch conscripts between 1807 and 1945 (after Knibbe, 2007)[39]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Calories_Intake_and_Length_of_Dutch_Conscripts.png/1280px-Calories_Intake_and_Length_of_Dutch_Conscripts.png)
Average calorie intake and body length of Dutch conscripts between 1807 and 1945 (after Knibbe, 2007)[39]
Merged mortality rates of 'tuberculosis of respiratory system' in Massachusetts 1861-1970, and 'tuberculosis' USA 1900-2014 (Data collected from reports of the US Census Bureau and CDC-Wonder / the US Center for Disease Control (CDC); AMC-University of Amsterdam, 2016)Awards 1
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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".
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