This study tests five hypotheses concerning trends in gender differences in accidents mortality and accident … differences have decreased for amount of driving, motor vehicle accidents mortality, and occupational accidents mortality. However …, for many types of accidents mortality, gender differences were stable or increased; these trends often resulted from the …

To address the question of whether the sex differential in mortality will in the future rise, fall, or stay the same …-attributed mortality. Data on 21 high income nations from 1975 to 2000 and a lag between smoking prevalence and mortality allow forecasts … mortality. However, continued widening of the differential in non-smoking mortality would counter narrowing due to smoking and …

other developed countries in order to ascertain whether Canada experiences a distinct low mortality profile. The evaluation … basis of two mortality indicators for the 80-99 age-interval lead to the same conclusion: Canadian mortality is lower than …

In this paper, we use the multiple cause-of-death approach to compare the mortality profiles of France and Italy in …

In this paper I explore the formal relationship between period and cohort mortality, focusing on a comparison of … and Feeney that the level of period is distorted, or biased, due to changes in the timing of mortality. I show that their … year for a hypothetical population subject to observed historical mortality conditions but with a constant annual number of …

these measures and their empirical testing on mortality data suggest a possibility for different judgements about the … decomposition of age-components into effects of mortality and composition of population by group is developed. Temporal changes in … computed from various types of mortality data of France, Japan, Sweden and the USA in 1900-95, decompositions of the USA …

centenarians largely depends on mortality features between 80 and 100 years. This study aims to cast light on our knowledge of … elderly mortality differentials, total and by cause of death, in Sardinia, and attempts to verify this hypothesis. To do so …, an analysis is conducted of age and sex mortality trends over time at province and municipality level. Results fully …

responsible for more years of life lost in 2000 than in 1970 despite the fact that declines in cancer mortality contributed to …

-attributable mortality in developed countries based on observed lung cancer death rates. Their estimates for females, however, differ …-attributable mortality that are consistent with results from a modified version of the Peto-Lopez indirect method. …