Period life expectancy varies with changes in mortality, and should not be confused with the life expectancy of those … alive during that period. Given past and likely future mortality changes, a recent debate has arisen on the usefulness of … the period life expectancy as the leading measure of survivorship. An alternative aggregate measure of period mortality …

Background -- Many studies for European populations found an increase in socio-economic mortality differentials during … well as regression-based measures of absolute (SII) and relative (RII) inequality, for the periods 1981/82, 1991/92, and … the following decade. For males at working ages an increase in relative mortality differentials was observed during the …

Using data from the Human Mortality Database (HMD), the paper analyzes the increase in the life expectancy of the … brief description of the Spanish mortality during the XXth century across several indexes. The study uses a decomposition … components of change are found in the elderly, in young people, and in the evolution to sex differences in human mortality. …

tempo under changing fertility and mortality that share a synthetic cohort interpretation with the adjusted measure of … quantum. I stress similarities between the results for fertility and mortality, particularly in terms of mean age of … distinguish quantum and tempo effects, but argue that in the case of mortality the Bongaarts-Feeney measure of tempo-adjusted life …

perhaps age 105 in China, we think that this convergence may be mainly due to mortality selection in the heterogeneous Chinese … population. We show that in China, as in developed countries, the rate of increase in mortality with age decelerates at very old …

mortality patterns. However, observed mortality rates at adult and old ages, which are usually well-described by a Gompertz … curve, are often perceived inconsistent with frailty models of mortality. We therefore propose a modified DeMoivre hazard … analysis of adult mortality. Our application to Bulgaria during 1992--93 suggests that the stronger selection process in the …

Our paper addresses two questions on seasonal mortality: How do women and men differ with respect to seasonal … fluctuations in mortality? How does seasonality in death change with age? The analysis is based on a sample of all Danes aged 50 … between women and men in their seasonal mortality patterns. Men showed larger seasonal fluctuations than women indicating a …

The overall trend of cancer mortality in Japan has been decreasing since the 1960s (age-standardized death rates for … ages 30-69), though trends differ enormously among various forms of the disease. Cancer mortality was heavily influenced by … should incorporate new knowledge about the role of infection in chronic disease morbidity and mortality. …