Objective: To study cross-national inequalities in mortality of adults and of children aged <5 years using a novel … approach, with clustering techniques to stratify countries into mortality groups (better-off, worse-off, mid-level) and to … Indicators 2003 database, compiled by the World Bank. Main outcome measures: Adult and child mortality among countries placed …

Gender inequalities in longevity/mortality are a major area of research since the 1970s. Despite substantial insights … on the question, to which extent socioeconomic variables determine the gender gap in mortality for important causes of … aggregated mortality data from Austria both at the community and the district level covering the time period 1969 - 2004. By …