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

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 …

that death rates declined differently for males and females and that the rate of mortality decline was not constant over …

After studying the epidemiologic transition’s situation in Canada, it is determined that the delimitation of temporal …

other developed countries in order to ascertain whether Canada experiences a distinct low mortality profile. The evaluation … basis of two mortality indicators for the 80-99 age-interval lead to the same conclusion: Canadian mortality is lower than …

-2050. Taking into account differentials in fertility and mortality by education level, we present the first systematic global …