The purpose of this article is to show recent trends in regional migration from East to West Germany by combining data …

While regional mortality inequalities in Germany tend to be relatively stable in the short run, over the course of the … past century marked changes have occurred in the country’s regional mortality patterns. These changes include not only the … southern regions had the lowest. Today, this mortality pattern is reversed. In this paper, we study these long-term trends in …

decreasing mortality at older ages. Patterns of oldest old mortality (ages 80+) differed significantly between men and women as … 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 …

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 …