Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reported, standardized mortality ratios … and economic factors. Compared with the US, mortality was much higher in urban India and rural China, much lower in Peru … comparing mortality experience with that in the United States, and estimated associations with socioeconomic factors using Coxâ …

China has adopted a wide-ranging program of pension reform since the late 1990s. The new pension system has replaced …

Private practice in the health sector was re-introduced from 1980, when China began its economic reform from a planned …

Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. The fertility … response to an unanticipated mortality shock is investigated that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure is identified, both …

Mortality rates have fallen dramatically over time, starting in a few countries in the 18th century, and continuing to … fall today. In just the past century, life expectancy has increased by over 30 years. At the same time, mortality rates … income per capita and mortality rates, a correlation that also exists within countries, where richer, better-educated people …

households and 7.3 million population. It has continued to be the main source of information on fertility and mortality …