mortality (a presumed proxy for improvements in health services), concentrating on the countries that increased their health …, Rwanda, and Malawi, budget support did have a positive effect on health spending and, except for Rwanda, neonatal mortality …

effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital … dispersion and population density along the storm track, I project changes in past storm-related mortality under various …

effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital … dispersion and population density along the storm track, I project changes in past storm-related mortality under various …

This paper studies a long short-term memory (LSTM)-based coherent mortality forecasting method for developing countries … or regions. Many of such developing countries have experienced a rapid mortality decline over the past few decades …. However, their recent mortality development trend is not necessarily driven by the same factors as their long-term behavior …

world. First, the impact of fertility decline on gender bias in mortality is examined. Contrary to the expectations of some … authors, fertility decline has not generally led to an intensification of gender bias in mortality. Second, the paper finds …. -- Missing women ; fertility decline ; Hepatitis B ; sex-selective abortions ; gender bias in mortality …