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Progress in health care, progress in health?

NNN1Nolte, FFF1Ellen; NNN2McKee, FFF2Martin; … - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 2 (2004) 6, pp. 139-162

and Romania, with west Germany included for comparison. We used the concept of deaths from certain causes that should not …, to a lesser extent, Hungary, while causing a loss of life expectancy in Romania. In the 1990s, improvements in infant … either Germany or Romania. Among adults, improvements in amenable mortality continued to benefit Hungarians and west Germans …

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An Assessment of the KDICP and MDICP Data Quality

Assche, FFF1Simona NNN1Bignami-Van; NNN2Reniers, FFF2Georges - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 1 (2003) 2, pp. 31-76

This paper evaluates the quality of the data collected as part of the Kenya and Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Projects, two longitudinal household surveys that examine the role of social networks in influencing attitudes and behavior regarding family size, family planning, and HIV/AIDS...

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Change and instability

NNN1Weinreb, FFF1Alexander A. - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 1 (2003) 12, pp. 373-396

This article examines changes in network structure using data on conversational networks from the 1998 and 2001 rounds of the Malawi Diffusion and Ideation Change project. The principal aims are to show that network structure can change significantly in relatively short periods - in particular...

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Convergences and divergences in mortality

NNN1Vallin, FFF1Jacques; NNN2Meslé, FFF2France - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 2 (2004) 2, pp. 11-44

Abdel Omran's 1971 theory of "Epidemiologic Transition" was the first attempt to account for the extraordinary advances in health care made in industrialized countries since the 18th century. In the framework of the Demographic Transition, it implied a general convergence of life expectancies...

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Mortality in Central and Eastern Europe

NNN1Meslé, FFF1France - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 2 (2004) 3, pp. 45-70

While, during several decades, unfavourable trends in mortality were quite similar in Central Europe and in the former USSR, in the most recent years, these two parts of Europe are diverging. In most Central European countries, life expectancy is now increasing mainly thanks to a decline in...

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Step-families and Childbearing Desires in Europe

NNN1Thomson, FFF1Elizabeth - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 3 (2004) 5, pp. 117-134

Increases in union stability and non-union childbearing during the latter half of the 20th century produced substantial increases in the prevalence of step-families. Research on step-family fertility in several European countries and the United States show that, net of a coupleâ€™s combined...

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Increasing excess mortality among non-married elderly people in developed countries

NNN1Valkonen, FFF1Tapani; NNN2Martikainen, FFF2Pekka; … - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 2 (2004) 12, pp. 305-330

This article analyses changes in marital status differences in mortality from approximately 1970 to 1995 among men and women aged 65-74 in ten developed countries (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England and Wales, Finland, France, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden). Data were obtained from the...

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Socio-economic inequalities in mortality and health in the developing world

NNN1Minujin, FFF1Alberto; NNN2Delamonica, FFF2Enrique - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 2 (2004) 13, pp. 331-354

Trends in child mortality disparities show that within country inequities have remained constant in some countries and worsened in most of the other ones. Only three countries, with relatively small populations which comprise less than 2 per cent of our sample, were able to achieve both a...

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Divorce and Remarriage in Rural Malawi

NNN1Reniers, FFF1Georges - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 1 (2003) 6, pp. 175-206

The demographic study of nuptiality in African countries is not very developed and often of secondary interest in a discussion of the proximate determinants of fertility. This paper uses unusual marriage history data to examine divorce and remarriage in rural Malawi. Life table probabilities of...

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Urbanization, development and under-five mortality differentials by place of residence in São Paulo, Brazil, 1970-1991

NNN1Sastry, FFF1Narayan - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 2 (2004) 14, pp. 355-386

In this paper, I examine differentials in under-five mortality for the state of São Paulo, Brazil, between urban and rural areas and by location within urban areas over a 21-year period between 1970 and 1991. I also investigate economic inequalities in under-five mortality for urban areas....

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