profitably used in mortality analysis. Vaupel (2003) went a step further, using simulations to investigate the impact of …

The impact of SES on mortality is an established finding in mortality research. I examine, whether this impact … decreases with age. Most research finds evidence for this decrease but it is unknown whether the decline is due to mortality … allow a time varying measurement of SES, health and behavior. Event-history-analysis is applied to analyze mortality …

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 …

The present study investigates the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB) and mortality risk, using a large …. Initially, we intended to contribute to the understanding of system relations between SWB, mortality risk, and unobserved … heterogeneity in the mortality equation prevents us from employing this model. Given this limitation, the study examines three …

eventually can even fade out. This presents another possible explanation for the human mortality rate plateaus. …

The aim of our paper is to provide an answer to the questions if and why social differences in health and mortality … of event-history-analysis is used, and frailty models address mortality selection. A new method is developed to consider … systematic difference in the change of average frailty over age between social groups. SES differentials in mortality converge …

quality data on oldest-old mortality remain relatively scarce. The Kannisto-Thatcher Old Age Mortality Database (KTD) is a … unique source providing uniformly recalculated old-age mortality data for 35 countries. Our study addresses a number of data … Kannisto, we apply the same set of measures. This allows us to identify dubious or irregular mortality patterns. Deviations …

occur in the presence of timely and effective health care (amenable mortality) and calculated the contribution of changes in … mortality from these conditions to changes in life expectancy between birth and age 75 [e (0-75)] for the periods 1980/81 to …. Romanian men lost 1.3 years. In the 1980s, falling infant mortality made a substantial contribution to improvements in …