Der Tod macht alle Menschen gleich, dennoch sind nicht alle gleichmäßig betroffen. Unterschiede in der Sterblichkeit …. Eine Analyse der allgemeinen Sterblichkeit von Deutschen Bürgern im Alter von 20 bis 49 im Jahre 2004 wurde durchgeführt … die Sterblichkeit in Deutschland stärker einem Nord\Ost-Sued\West-Trend als einem einem Ost-West-Trend. Das Pro …

Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are … fundamental to evidence-based health policy, monitoring and evaluation. Yet few of the countries with the greatest need for these … cause-specific mortality data that are more complete and continuous than those currently available. The tools and methods …

-income economies in general, mortality tends to evolve better in recessions than in expansions. It has been suggested that Sweden may … be an exception to this pattern. The present investigation shows, however, that in the period 1968–2003 mortality … pattern is evidenced by the oscillations of life expectancy, total mortality, and age- and sex-specific mortality rates at the …

-level comparative risk assessment modeling the mortality effects of interventions on child nutrition and environmental risk factors … Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Data on disease-specific child mortality were from the World Health Organization. Data on the …Context The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set targets related to important global poverty, health …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

In this paper we examine how risk attitudes change with age. We present participants from age 5 to 64 with choices … probability of the non-zero payoff. Surprisingly, we find that many participants are risk seeking when faced with high …-probability prospects over gains and risk averse when faced with small-probability prospects. Over losses we find the exact opposite …

This paper studies life-cycle preferences over consumption and health status. We show that cost-effectiveness analysis … utility of consumption and the utility of health status, and if the utility of consumption is constant over time. We derive …, health status, and the possibilities for intertemporal substitution of consumption. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights …

the two species, the potential health risk connected with their misidentification. GC and GC-MS analysis of the essential … a health risk and that the absence of the toxic alpha-thujone from T macrophyllum oil may in fact be regarded as a …