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 …

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 …

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 …

The objective of this study was to examine if intra-racial income inequality contributes to higher infant mortality …

This paper develops a theory of optimal fertility behavior under mortality shocks. In an OLG model, young adults … determine their optimal fertility, labor supply and life-cycle consumption with both exogenous child and adult mortality risks …. We show that a rise in adult mortality exerts an ambiguous effect on both net and total fertility in a general …

Health progress, as measured by the decline in mortality rates and the increase in life expectancy, is usuallyconceived … 20th. No evidence isfound for economic effects on mortality at greater lags. These findings are shown to be robustly …

-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 …

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. …

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 …