deaths in the latecomer. We apply this methodology to four different countries: Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Portugal. We show …

return, is the adequate choice of a life table suitable to a given population. Brazil lacks specific life tables for its … population and has been using foreign tables, developed for other countries with different cultures and different mortality … private pension schemes. A mathematical equation is fitted to the data. This equation has three components: infant mortality …

We investigate universalization of access to health in Brazil. We find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal … and post-neonatal mortality, a reduction in fertility and, possibly on account of selection, no change in the quality of …

mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither …

Estimates of the growth (K), natural mortality (M), consumption/biomass (Q/B) rate and trophic level (TL) for 35 …