life disparity, but averting a late death increases inequality in lifespans. …

life expectancy between Israeli Jews and Western countries, for each sex, and to sex differentials in mortality in both … populations. We quantify the major types of behaviourally induced mortality to show that it is especially low among Israeli Jewish … males. We also investigate mortality in certain subgroups of Israeli Jews to gain a better understanding of female mortality …

of males above age five. Wild-born animals do not have mortality that differs significantly from captive-born animals …. While most species have mortality that rises with age above the juvenile stage, there are several groups for which the age … pattern of mortality is nearly level. …

forces of mortality: they are quantities specified for each age and time by a mathematical function of two variables that may …-Feeney mortality tempo adjustment formula (Bongaarts and Feeney 2003) against variations in increments to life by age. Section 6 shows … consistent with the Bongaarts-Feeney mortality tempo adjustment. What seems to be needed, rather, is a model that incorporates …

Compression of mortality is measured here in four ways: (1) by standard deviation of the age at death above the mode … modern populations, all four measures show convincingly that the secular transition from high to low mortality has been … accompanied by general and massive compression of mortality. In recent decades, however, this development has come close to …

-clinical disciplines to better understand the link between functioning/diseases/ vulnerability and mortality, ii) the male-female health …-survival paradox (i.e., males report better health than females, but encounter higher mortality at all ages), and how this paradox may …

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 …

constant linear mortality shifts the tempo-adjusted period indicator translates exactly to the cohort born e¤0 (t) years …