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Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are … cause-specific mortality data that are more complete and continuous than those currently available. The tools and methods … research and development monitoring. If the global community wishes to have mortality measurements 5 or 10 years hence, the …
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Genetic selection is an important breeding tool that can be used for improving the animal's coping capability to modern production environments or for increasing economic benefits. However, over the past five decades, commercial breeding programmes have primarily concentrated on traits directly...
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used the costs and returns data to calculate the associated income lost from each mortality, and predicted the increase in … income that would result from reduced preweaning mortality in each herd size and region. Weprovide estimation methods that …'benefit analysis of intervention strategies intended to reduce preweaning mortality. …
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early effects address four causes of mortality and nine categories of morbidity. The models for early effects are based upon … analysis of both morbidity and mortality. The new models for genetic effects allow prediction of genetic risks in each of the …
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Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be … arrived at the same conclusion. Within countries, just as at the cross-national level, child mortality has been found to be … the minority are studies of socioeconomic determinants of child mortality which have examined the association between …
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censuses and demographic surveys particularly the World Fertility Survey to ascertain trends in fertility and mortality. The ….e. breastfeeding and post-partum abstinence; and a reduction in the level of sterility. As far as trends in mortality are concerned …, the estimates posit a decline in both infant and child mortality in Kenya, Benin and Ivory Coast; infant mortality in …
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addition to high morbidityand mortality one of the well described parameters is the extra lengthof stay in the hospital. High … mortality rates and economic expensewhich NI represents emphasizes the justification for measures ofcontrol of this entity. To …
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This dissertation contains two empirical papers on income and premature mortality, and one methodological paper that … concerns the summary measurement of the extent of social inequalities in health. Income dynamics and adult mortality: Canada … and the USAChapter 4 examines the effects of income level and income drops on all-cause mortality in Canada and the United …
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Death is a unifying event for all mankind, but not everybody is equally affected. The mortality differential by socio … regions with unusual high or low mortality and model external causes of mortality variation. Furthermore, mortality data is … that are able to capture the spatial structure of the data. An analysis of all-cause mortality of German citizen between …
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cause-specific mortality over time to elucidate how economic development impacts disparities in health. We used … population from 1976 to 2006. For all-cause mortality and for each of the specific causes considered the concentration curve in …
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