Analysis of the radiological health effects of nuclear power plant accidents requires models for predicting early … health effects, cancers and benign thyroid nodules, and genetic effects. Since the publication of the Reactor Safety Study …, additional information on radiological health effects has become available. This report summarizes the efforts of a program …

Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be … arrived at the same conclusion. Within countries, just as at the cross-national level, child mortality has been found to be … the minority are studies of socioeconomic determinants of child mortality which have examined the association between …

censuses and demographic surveys particularly the World Fertility Survey to ascertain trends in fertility and mortality. The … improvement in the socio-economic indicators i.e. education and health services; relaxation of traditional controls i ….e. breastfeeding and post-partum abstinence; and a reduction in the level of sterility. As far as trends in mortality are concerned …

The objective of this study was to examine if intra-racial income inequality contributes to higher infant mortality … environment interpretation of the income inequality and health link. The hypotheses examined were that race …/ethnicity-specific IMRs are influenced by intra-race/ethnicity income inequality, and that these effects of income inequality on health are …

two operations but strong evidence of delayed mortality from turbine passage. After tagging with a passive integrated … operations. Based on these differences, we estimated that delayed mortality comprised from 46% to 70% of total estimated … mortality. We reviewed the literature and concluded that delayed mortality was caused by sublethal impacts to fish sensory …

We developed a method to estimate mortality rates of adult fish caused by entrainment through the propellers of … statistical properties of the entrainment mortality rate estimators using Monte Carlo simulation, which demonstrated that a design … estimated the entrainment mortality rates of adult fishes in Pool 26 of the Mississippi River and the Alton Pool of the Illinois …

A 3-year study was conducted to determine mortality rates for downstream migrant salmonids passing through spillways or … chinook were also tested in 1957. In all experiments the turbine was the major source of mortality. For each exit, no … significant difference was found between mortalities at McNary Dam and Big Cliff Dam on fingerling chinook or between mortality …

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … leads to a 12% decline in the probability of death. We find a large role of unobserved health shocks, with 5-years of shocks …

preference and health, in an area of the world with high mortality and morbidity. Interestingly, we find that both physical …Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated … collecting detailed measures of health, time preference, and expected longevity on a sample of individuals in townships around …

analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …