to the UN and cause-of-death data reported to WHO, we review the present situation and past trends of vital statistics in … the world and note little improvement in worldwide availability of general vital statistics or cause-of-death statistics …

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 …

Death is a unifying event for all mankind, but not everybody is equally affected. The mortality differential by socio …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 …

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 …

private opportunity costs of children have therefore increased, and parents have been motivated to substitute child schooling … quality, children. …

This paper examines the effects of a public-health intervention program on sex differentials in health and mortality … nutritional services seem to have been more successful in reducing excess female mortality. The reason for this success appears to … have been careful follow-up of undernourished children by project workers. The results also indicate that, consistent with …

This dissertation examines the relationships among measures of mortality, fertility,burden of disease, and … socioeconomic factors. Regression modeling is used to determine(1) whether population mortality or child mortality better forecasts … fertility levels; (2) if achild health model provides a stronger indicator of fertility than child mortality alone;and (3) what …

Child mortality is defined as the death of children under five years old. Worldwide, child mortality was about 8 … of access to export markets.In the instance of food contamination, young children and the elderly are typically most at … risk. Perhaps the most sobering consequence of inadequate food safety standards is child mortality. This thesis uses a …