beyond selection, origin or destination effects, and 2) on causes behind the mortality crisis in Russia by testing an …. Using RLMS data and Cox proportional hazard models, the results demonstrate that men were at greater risk of mortality when … they experienced downward mobility, relative to men who did not. Women’s mortality did not appear to be linked to downward …

an important impact on estimates of mortality and life expectancy. In this paper, we start by reviewing Vallin’s work … effects of war. The results indicate that estimates currently available from the Human Mortality Database (HMD) greatly … underestimate period mortality during wartime among all Italian males, and may even underestimate mortality among civilian males …

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 …

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 …

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 …