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Select birth cohorts
MacMinn, Richard D.; Weber, Frederik - 2009
detailed analysis of mortality data an additional type of risk can be identified: differences in mortality improvements by … further investigate mortality improvements but rather relied on graphical representations without particular focus on … established. A simple criterion for identifying select cohorts is proposed and used here to what country mortality data reveals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861095
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Public spending on health and long-term care : a new set of projections ; a going for growth report
Maisonneuve, Christine de la; Oliveira-Martins, Joaquim - 2013
This paper proposes a new set of public health and long-term care expenditure projections till 2060, following up on the previous set of projections published in 2006. It disentangles health from longterm care expenditure as well as the demographic from the non-demographic drivers, and refines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775557
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Issues of Selection in Human Survivorship : A Theory of Mortality Change from the Mid-Eighteenth to the Early Twenty First Century
Hansen, Hans Oluf - 2008
Is variation in empirical mortality across populations consistent with a hypothesis of selection? To examine this … proposition an extended frailty mortality model is put forward; incorporating biological frailty; a common non-parametric hazard …, joint for men and women, rep-resenting endogenous mortality in terms of degenerative aging (senescence); and environ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215197
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Missing Women in Indian Districts: an Entitlements Approach.
Agnihotri, S.; Palmer-Jones, R.; Parikh, A. - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 1998
The ratio of women to men in India reveals excess female mortality by comparison with developed countries; this excess … is socially not naturally determined. Juvenile sex ratios combine excess male infant mortality in poor health … environments with excess female child mortality due to discrimination. Variations in sex ratios have been explained in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005671760
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The Modwt Analysis of the Relationship Between Mortality and Ambient Temperature for Prague, Czech Republic
Bašta, Milan - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2011 (2011) 1, pp. 20-40
Weather conditions influence the health of humans. Changing weather patterns may also cause considerable increase or decrease in the number of deaths. In this paper, we use daily data for Prague, Czech Republic, and the maximum overlap discrete wavelet transform to explore the time scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008922879
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Missing Women in Indian Districts: an Entitlements Approach.
Agnihotri, S.; Palmer-Jones, R.; Parikh, A. - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 1998
The ratio of women to men in India reveals excess female mortality by comparison with developed countries; this excess … is socially not naturally determined. Juvenile sex ratios combine excess male infant mortality in poor health … environments with excess female child mortality due to discrimination. Variations in sex ratios have been explained in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008621774
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Health behaviors and education in Turkey
Tansel, Aysıt; Karaoğlan, Deniz - 2014
This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI). We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379965
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Health behaviors and education in Turkey
Tansel, Aysıt; Karaoglan, Deniz - 2014
This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI). We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369751
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Health behaviors and education in Turkey
Tansel, Aysıt; Karaoglan, Deniz - 2014
This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI). We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371420
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Health Behaviors and Education in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit - 2014
This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI).We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051797