While regional mortality inequalities in Germany tend to be relatively stable in the short run, over the course of the … past century marked changes have occurred in the country’s regional mortality patterns. These changes include not only the … southern regions had the lowest. Today, this mortality pattern is reversed. In this paper, we study these long-term trends in …

This study examines the variation in mortality and mortality trends among different regions in India since the 1970s …. The Gini coefficient and dispersion measure of mortality confirm the convergence of mortality across the regions in India … mortality in children under the age of 15 years. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the contribution of both young and adult age …

beyond selection, origin or destination effects, and 2) on causes behind the mortality crisis in Russia by testing an …. Using RLMS data and Cox proportional hazard models, the results demonstrate that men were at greater risk of mortality when … they experienced downward mobility, relative to men who did not. Women’s mortality did not appear to be linked to downward …

Since gender-specific mortality differences are known a great deal of research has been conducted on this subject. The … resulting hypotheses for explaining male excess mortality can be sub-divided into two basic categories: the biological approach …). It has been proven impossible to explain the observed trends in mortality differences between women and men by relying …

The present study investigates the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB) and mortality risk, using a large …. Initially, we intended to contribute to the understanding of system relations between SWB, mortality risk, and unobserved … heterogeneity in the mortality equation prevents us from employing this model. Given this limitation, the study examines three …

eventually can even fade out. This presents another possible explanation for the human mortality rate plateaus. …

The aim of our paper is to provide an answer to the questions if and why social differences in health and mortality … of event-history-analysis is used, and frailty models address mortality selection. A new method is developed to consider … systematic difference in the change of average frailty over age between social groups. SES differentials in mortality converge …

quality data on oldest-old mortality remain relatively scarce. The Kannisto-Thatcher Old Age Mortality Database (KTD) is a … unique source providing uniformly recalculated old-age mortality data for 35 countries. Our study addresses a number of data … Kannisto, we apply the same set of measures. This allows us to identify dubious or irregular mortality patterns. Deviations …

Objective: Epigenetic inheritance has been suggested to be an important factor influencing mortality. We use historical … in response to predicted/perceived mortality. If yes, those growing in the predicted environment enjoy a phenotype …-environment-match which should lower mortality, whereas those growing in a non-predicted environment should have a higher mortality. Methods …