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 …

The purpose of this paper is to describe trends in sex differences in mortality in young adulthood and in middle age … among African Americans and whites in the United States between 1960 and 1995. We examine trends in all-cause mortality and … estimate the contribution of leading causes of death to the change in the sex difference in mortality over time. Between 1960 …

In this paper, we use the multiple cause-of-death approach to compare the mortality profiles of France and Italy in …

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 …

While, during several decades, unfavourable trends in mortality were quite similar in Central Europe and in the former … expectancy is now increasing mainly thanks to a decline in cardiovascular mortality. Conversely, cardiovascular mortality is … mortality. The situation of Baltic countries is still uncertain but it is not impossible that these countries soon resume with …

We propose an alternative way of dealing with mortality tempo. Bongaarts and Feeney have developed a model that assumes … cause of mortality. Cross-sectional risks of mortality by age and expectations of life therefore are not biased, contrary to …