Using data from the Human Mortality Database (HMD), the paper analyzes the increase in the life expectancy of the … progress in terms of increasing life expectancy. Within the theoretical context of Health Transition, the authors provide a … brief description of the Spanish mortality during the XXth century across several indexes. The study uses a decomposition …

The overall trend of cancer mortality in Japan has been decreasing since the 1960s (age-standardized death rates for … ages 30-69), though trends differ enormously among various forms of the disease. Cancer mortality was heavily influenced by … should incorporate new knowledge about the role of infection in chronic disease morbidity and mortality. …

allow a time varying measurement of SES, health and behavior. Event-history-analysis is applied to analyze mortality …The impact of SES on mortality is an established finding in mortality research. I examine, whether this impact … decreases with age. Most research finds evidence for this decrease but it is unknown whether the decline is due to mortality …

the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System in South Africa to argue that: 1) long-term presence and …

Sex, age, education, marital status, obesity, and smoking have been found to affect health transitions between non …

carried out in the early 2000s enables to re-estimate recent mortality levels in both countries. Vital statistics since the … 1980s are presented and discussed. Infant mortality is corrected according to sample surveys, and mortality above age 60 … countries, unfavourable during the 1990s, especially for males for whom the health progress, notably in Georgia, is still low. …

this paper we systematically investigate how perturbations in mortality affect life-expectancy. …

-attributable mortality in developed countries based on observed lung cancer death rates. Their estimates for females, however, differ …-attributable mortality that are consistent with results from a modified version of the Peto-Lopez indirect method. …