This paper examines age patterns and trends of early and late neonatal mortality in developing countries, using birth … consistency and by comparison with historic age patterns of neonatal mortality from England and Wales. The median neonatal … mortality rate (NMR) across 108 nationally-representative surveys was 33 per 1000 live births. NMR averaged an annual decline of …

A recently completed series of life tables from 1751 to 1995 is used for identifying four stages of mortality … in mortality also took place in this early period. Each of the successive stages of transition produced its own … characteristic pattern of mortality change which contrasted with those of the other stages. Finally, the age profile of the years …

Special Collection 2: Determinants of Diverging Trends in Mortality is a set of papers stemming from the first seminar … (IUSSP), "Determinants of Diverging Trends of Mortality". The seminar was held in Rostock (Germany) from 19-21 June 2002. The … seminar encouraged studies on adverse mortality trends and widening mortality differentials between and within countries …

mortality generally still is rejected. This rejection is irrational in principle, as the basic idea behind the tempo approach is … that mortality tempo-adjustment can paint a different picture of current mortality conditions compared to conventional life … expectancy. An application of the Bongaarts and Feeney method to the analysis of mortality differences between western and …

To address the question of whether the sex differential in mortality will in the future rise, fall, or stay the same …-attributed mortality. Data on 21 high income nations from 1975 to 2000 and a lag between smoking prevalence and mortality allow forecasts … mortality. However, continued widening of the differential in non-smoking mortality would counter narrowing due to smoking and …

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 … the following decade. For males at working ages an increase in relative mortality differentials was observed during the … 1980s. Absolute mortality differentials decreased among elderly females in the 1990s, particularly for circulatory disease …

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 …