The paper investigates whether self-assessed health status (SAH) contains information about future mortality and … contain private information for future mortality and morbidity. Moreover the extra information in SAH is greater at older ages …

This paper investigates inequality in smoking-related mortality risk, focusing on the intergenerational transmission of … smoking. We estimate a latent factor model for smoking initiation, cessation and mortality risk using the British Health and … overall mortality risk, Sen's welfare index and generalised Lorenz curves are computed for the baseline model and for …

predictive power for subsequent mortality. Methods: Data are drawn from the GLOBE study, a prospective cohort study conducted in … prospectively for 1991, 1993 and 1995 - to predict mortality until 2004. Proportional hazard models with frailty are used to model … the relationships between health changes and mortality, before and after controlling for a set of pre-existing chronic …

latent factor influences the risk of starting and quitting smoking as well as the hazard of mortality. Frailty could in … as selection into early smoking cessation. Overall, determinants of smoking durations and mortality hazard are largely … suggesting that increasing the quitting rate and reduc- ing the duration of smoking would decrease premature mortality. Whereas …

inpatient mortality. We find evidence that the effect of PHI on inpatient mortality varies over levels of unobserved confounders …

In this study we analyze the relationship between heat events and mortality in Germany. The main research questions are …: Does heat lead to rising mortality and if yes, are the eects persistent or compensated for in the near future? Furthermore …, we consider dierences between heat eects in urban and rural environments. Cause specic daily mortality and meteorological …

find evidence that effect of PHI on inpatient mortality vary over levels of unobserved confounders giving rise to a …