-attributable mortality in developed countries based on observed lung cancer death rates. Their estimates for females, however, differ …-attributable mortality that are consistent with results from a modified version of the Peto-Lopez indirect method. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

profitably used in mortality analysis. Vaupel (2003) went a step further, using simulations to investigate the impact of …

decreasing mortality at older ages. Patterns of oldest old mortality (ages 80+) differed significantly between men and women as … well as between East and West Germany. While West German oldest old mortality decreased since the mid 1970s, comparable … decreases in East Germany did not become evident until the late 1980s. Yet, the East German mortality decline accelerated after …

carried out in the early 2000s enables to re-estimate recent mortality levels in both countries. Vital statistics since the … 1980s are presented and discussed. Infant mortality is corrected according to sample surveys, and mortality above age 60 …