Burgio (Alessandra), Frova (Luisa). - Mortality Projections by Causes of Death, Extrapolation of Trends, or Age-Period-Cohort Models An age-cohort model is used to project mortality from specific causes and the results are compared with those from a more determinist method of analyzing times...

The prevalence of bad self-rated health (SRH) varies considerably across countries. Here we present the results of a cross-national comparative study based on the data of National Health Surveys conducted in France and Italy. According to these data, 11% of the Italian and 6% of the French adult...

Meslé France. - Mortality in East European Countries. In most East European countries, life expectancy at birth has barely increased after the end of the 1960s, and in Poland and Bulgaria there has even been a decline in men's life expectancy. This increase in mortality was primarily caused by...

Meslé (France), Vallin (Jacques).- Evolution and geographical variations in excess male mortality: from the French paradox to the Russian logic The last century and in particular the period from the 1950s to the 1980s, has seen a considerable rise in excess male mortality in western countries...

Meslé France and Vallin Jacques. ? The main cardiovascular mortality components in France since 1925 : reconstitution of continuous series. On the basis of the presently available statistical series, the analysis of the long term evolution of cardio-vascular mortality is really impossible. Not...