In the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a substantial mortality 'penalty' to living in … data before 1933, it is possible to describe the phenomenon of the urban mortality transition. Early in the 19th century … mortality situation. A national crude death rate of 20-25 per thousand per year would have been likely. Some early data indicate …

We project the effects of declining smoking and increasing obesity on mortality in the United States over the period … cancer. We find that both changes in smoking and in obesity are expected to have large effects on mortality. For males, the …

comprehensive set of data files ever compiled on mortality and its determinants over the course of the 20th century, this paper … makes two primary discoveries. First, we find that the mortality effect of an extremely hot day declined by about 80 … occurred if the temperature-mortality relationship from before 1960 still prevailed. Second, the adoption of residential air …

connects those anthropometric measurements with an index of childhood mortality estimated from the censuses of 1900 and 1910 … primarily from the censuses of 1900 and 1910. The results indicate that early childhood mortality was a good (negative …

Life expectancy in the United States fares poorly in international comparisons, primarily because of high mortality … blood pressure or cholesterol. We consider in greater depth mortality from prostate cancer and breast cancer, diseases for … dominant role. We show that the US has had significantly faster declines in mortality from these two diseases than comparison …

curtailing overall mortality because the average duration of each type of NPI was only around one month. Another possibility is …

We estimate how the mortality effects of temperature vary across U.S. climate regions to assess local and national … damages from projected climate change. Using 22 years of Medicare data, we find that both cold and hot days increase mortality … places bear more, not less, of the mortality burden. Allowing places to adapt to their future climate substantially reduces …

(before ages 75, 65, and 55) cancer mortality and hospitalization, by estimating difference-in-differences models based on …-supported articles were published since the 1970s had larger reductions in premature mortality and hospitalization during the period 1999 … published did not have larger reductions in premature mortality or hospitalization.The research support that contributed to …

describe regional patterns in the decline of urban infectious mortality from 1900 to 1948. We report three main results: First …, urban infectious mortality was higher in the South in every year from 1900 to 1948. Second, infectious mortality declined … later in southern cities than in cities in the other regions. Third, comparatively high infectious mortality in southern …

mortality models imply that actual life expectancy of HIV/AIDS patients in 2001 was 13.4 years higher than it would have been if …