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tempo under changing fertility and mortality that share a synthetic cohort interpretation with the adjusted measure of … quantum. I stress similarities between the results for fertility and mortality, particularly in terms of mean age of … childbearing and mean age at death, but also note some important distinctions. I conclude that the fertility adjustments can help …
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This article reviews the position of the population of the Netherlands in the context of the demographic characteristics of the other seventeen major Western European countries. It attempts to show the ways in which the population of the Netherlands is part of the European mainstream and where...
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Demographic surveillance systems (DSS) depend on community acceptance and involvement to produce high quality longitudinal data. Ensuring community support also exposes power relations usually concealed in the research process. We discuss the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System...
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Humans, and many other species, suffer senescence: mortality increases and fertility declines with adult age. Some … species, however, enjoy sustenance: mortality and fertility remain constant. Here we develop simple but general evolutionary …
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fertility and mortality (Williams, 1957). Life history studies would benefit from a better understanding of strategies and …It has long been recognized that the patterns of growth play an important role in the evolution of age trajectories of … mechanisms of growth, but still no comparative research on individual growth strategies has been conducted. Growth patterns and …
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functional forms of CVD-related biomarkers for all-cause and CVD mortality in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).Methods: We …-year mortality follow-up period.Results: The results show that the additive index has comparatively high predictive power, relative … to its simplicity. Risk profiles were identified in the data, with substantial differences in mortality risk between the …
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