that death rates declined differently for males and females and that the rate of mortality decline was not constant over …

, an analysis is conducted of age and sex mortality trends over time at province and municipality level. Results fully … centenarians largely depends on mortality features between 80 and 100 years. This study aims to cast light on our knowledge of … elderly mortality differentials, total and by cause of death, in Sardinia, and attempts to verify this hypothesis. To do so …

Background: Prior estimates of the Russian mortality by socio-demographic group revealed significant differentials … used for estimation of mortality in this study, along with similar register-based data from Helsinki and Oslo. Data and … the LRC cohort, mortality of men with high education is close to the city average for Helsinki and Oslo. Absolute inter …

shows that such a "tempo bias" can occur in age-specific mortality as well: if the age distribution of cohort deaths shifts …

This study tests five hypotheses concerning trends in gender differences in accidents mortality and accident … differences have decreased for amount of driving, motor vehicle accidents mortality, and occupational accidents mortality. However …, for many types of accidents mortality, gender differences were stable or increased; these trends often resulted from the …

Perinatal mortality rates have dropped sharply in the past few decades, in the Netherlands as well as in all other … position in the international ranking of countries with favourable perinatal mortality rates. This lower ranking is not only … article examines the effect on perinatal mortality rates of known risk factors, in particular the presence of non …

of results that they provide, and how they are useful for the study of mortality in the nations of the South. In the …

mortality, but as cardiovascular diseases declined this later shifted to advanced ages. Between the mid-1980s and early 1990s … life expectancy improvements stagnated as the mortality risk from traffic accidents and HIV/AIDS in young adults increased …. Both the age-delay in old-age mortality and the simultaneous influence of behaviour and life style reflect distinct aspects …

responsible for more years of life lost in 2000 than in 1970 despite the fact that declines in cancer mortality contributed to …