of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …, research has mainly focused on excess female mortality in Asia. However, as emphasized in our earlier research, at least 30 per …

investigated. Cub mortality was examined over a 4-year period in one clan of wild-living spotted hyenas in Kenya. Data were … examined as a function of litter size, sex of cubs, and maternal rank. Overall, cub mortality was high (61%). Contrary to … expectation, singleton cubs did not survive better than twins, and there was no difference in survivorship between female and male …

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between alcohol-related mortality and social status among men in …,038,654 records of men 35-74 years old, of whom 3824 died of causes explicitly related to alcohol abuse. Standardized mortality ratios … in alcohol-related mortality increased but only between 1981/82 and 1991/92; and among those 35-59 years old only for the …

and mortality, paying particular attention to possible differences by sex and region. Higher parity is associated with …