Samuel H. Preston

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Samuel Hulse Preston (born December 2, 1943) is an American

He is one of the leading

The Preston curve is named after him.^{[citation needed]} Preston's major research interest is in the health of populations. He has written primarily about mortality trends and patterns in large aggregates, including 20th-century mortality transitions and black/white differentials in the United States.

Publications

• Preston, Samuel H., & Michael Haines. (1991), Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth Century America., Princeton: Princeton University Press{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Gribble, James N., & Preston, Samuel H. (editors) (1993), The Epidemiological transition: policy and planning implications for developing countries, Washington, DC: National Academy Press,
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• Preston, Samuel H, Patrick Heuveline, and Michel Guillot. (1991), Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes., New York: Blackwell{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

References

External links

• Samuel H. Preston, at the University of Pennsylvania

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