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 … large shares of the residents of some Indonesian communities but caused no deaths in neighboring communities. Using …

coverage will be essential in lowering infant and under-five mortality rates in the country. However, these general policies … will not be enough. Special attention will need to be paid to the 18 problem of significantly higher mortality risk among … higher birth order children, especially girls. It is worrisome that this group remains at significant risk of mortality even …

of whom will pass on their poverty to their children, and all too often die easily preventable deaths. …

the unacceptably high number of maternal and perinatal deaths each year, it is high time to address this issue. [Policy …

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 …

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 …