This paper performs a systematic analysis of all currently available Russian data on mortality by region, census year … variations in cause-specific mortality, the negative general trends observed since 1965, and the wide fluctuations of the last … reliable mortality indicators by geographic units using census data for 1970, 1979, 1989, and micro-census data for 1994, and …

This study is a first attempt to produce reliable estimates of mortality in Georgia and Armenia in the 1990s. Official … statistics registered a decrease in mortality over the 1990s in spite of local wars, mass flows of refugees, and severe economic … of vital events resulted in a greater under-registration of deaths than in Armenia. Modified populations, mortality and …

Okinawa, in order to explain the presence of large numbers of centenarians. The mortality crossover obtained by comparing … mortality rates in Okinawa and Japan could be attributed either to different behavior of the generations born before and after …

I study how shocks in cohort-level early life conditions, as represented by deviations from trend in mortality before … age 5, affect later mortality. I use data for six European countries and find that shocks that increase infant mortality … other countries. Shocks that increase mortality at ages 1-5 increase life expectancy between ages 5-30 and compress the …

We test the effects of early life exposure to disease on later health by looking for differences in late-life mortality … in cohorts born around the 1918-1919 flu pandemic using data from the Human Mortality Database for 24 countries. After … controlling for age, period, and sex effects, residual mortality rates did not differ systematically for flu cohorts relative to …

Even in present-day high-income countries, there is a lot of evidence of a high degree of vulnerability of the … population to both high and low outdoor temperatures. The magnitude of temperature-related mortality is strongly related to a … mortality, we analyze Dutch individual death records in relation to daily temperature for the period 1855-2006 for one of the 11 …

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 …