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 …

income per capita and mortality rates, a correlation that also exists within countries, where richer, better-educated people …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 …

Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reported, standardized mortality ratios … comparing mortality experience with that in the United States, and estimated associations with socioeconomic factors using Coxâ …€™s proportional hazards regression. Cause-specific mortality fractions were estimated using the InterVA algorithm. Crude mortality …

The Sample Registration System (SRS) in India is the largest demographic survey in the world covering about 1.5 million … households and 7.3 million population. It has continued to be the main source of information on fertility and mortality …

the World Health Organization (WHO) should be encouraged and supported to take a more prominent role in improving the …