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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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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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The value-of-statistical-life (VSL) approach is used by environmental economists to value mortality changes resulting … willingness-to-pay for reduction in mortality linked to air pollution in Santiago, Chile. We find willingness-to-pay estimates in …
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Objective-The purpose of mammographic screening is to reduce mortality from breast cancer. This study describes a …
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Vital statistics generated through civil registration systems are the major source of continuous monitoring of births and deaths over time. The usefulness of vital statistics depends on their quality. In the second paper in this Series we propose a comprehensive and practical framework for...
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consideration of a national education program on the assumption that prostate cancer screening over age 70 does not reduce mortality …
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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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