The question of whether morbidity is being compressed into the period just before death has been at the center of … health debates in the United States for some time. Compression of morbidity would lead to longer life but less rapid medical … spending increases than if life extension were accompanied by expanding morbidity. Using nearly 20 years of data from the …

on older age mortality depended upon the cause of death that was being investigated but all of these infections reduced … cause-specific longevity. Men who grew up in a large city faced an elevated mortality risk from all causes of death … controlling for later residence. The immediate effect of reduced infectious disease rates and reduced mortality from acute disease …

The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the … descriptive analysis of mobility for the famine-era Irish sons indicates that more Catholic surnames and birth in Ireland were …

The modern secular decline in mortality in Western Europe did not begin until the 1780s and the first wave of … improvement was over by 1840. The elimination of famines and of crisis mortality played only a secondary role during the first …

The six principal findings of this paper are as follows: (1) crisis mortality accounted for less than 5 percent of … total mortality in England prior to 1800 and the elimination of crisis mortality accounted for just 15 percent of the … decline in total mortality between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (2) The use of variations in wheat prices to …