Individual- and community-level income has been shown to be linked to social inequalities in health and mortality. On …

While regional mortality inequalities in Germany tend to be relatively stable in the short run, over the course of the … spatial mortality disparities in Germany since 1900, and link them with theoretical considerations and existing research on … past century marked changes have occurred in the country’s regional mortality patterns. These changes include not only the …

Württemberg (southern Germany) from the mid-sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Using high-quality registers of births … child mortality. A second group, of “outsiders”, were prevented from marrying. Many, especially the males, left the … community; those who stayed contributed to growing illegitimacy and associated levels of infant and child mortality that were …

well as between East and West Germany. While West German oldest old mortality decreased since the mid 1970s, comparable … decreases in East Germany did not become evident until the late 1980s. Yet, the East German mortality decline accelerated after … as potential determinants of the decline in old age mortality in Germany. …

Since gender-specific mortality differences are known a great deal of research has been conducted on this subject. The … resulting hypotheses for explaining male excess mortality can be sub-divided into two basic categories: the biological approach …). It has been proven impossible to explain the observed trends in mortality differences between women and men by relying …

gesamten Altersvorsorge. Bei festem Beitragssatz führen zurückgehende Kinderzahlen automatisch zu Rentenkürzungen, die dadurch …