When measuring social differences in mortality in the former socialist countries of central and eastern Europe, it has been impossible, until now, to link census data and vital records to avoid the classic problem of bias caused by inconsistency between the individual status recorded in the...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990 and EU enlargement in 2004 are two major political events in the recent history of the Central and Eastern European region. By systematically comparing the changes and differences in life expectancy at birth between the seven new member countries from Central...

The well-known Oeppen-Vaupel straight line of maximum female life expectancies showed that the highest life expectancy observed in a given year increased linearly from 1840 to 2000. Their analysis fueled major controversy, especially when used to extrapolate future improvements in life...

In the most advanced countries, child mortality and adult mortality under age 65 years have fallen so low that further improvement in life expectancy relies almost completely on the decline of mortality at older ages. This phenomenon is particularly pronounced among women, who are far ahead of...

Meslé France and Vallin Jacques. ? The Population in Psychiatrie Hospitals. Changes in Morbidity or Changes in Medical Practice ? The decrease in the population in psychiatric hospitals which began after the end of the war has become more pronounced during the 1970s. The decline was greater for...

M es lé France and Vallin Jacques. - Reconstitution of Annual Mortality Tables in 19th Century France. Since the 1950's, as a result of work by Jean Bourgeois-Pichat. a series of triennial abridged tables of mortality centered on census years has become available. General trends are, therefore...