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 …

This study tests five hypotheses concerning trends in gender differences in accidents mortality and accident … differences have decreased for amount of driving, motor vehicle accidents mortality, and occupational accidents mortality. However …, for many types of accidents mortality, gender differences were stable or increased; these trends often resulted from the …

other developed countries in order to ascertain whether Canada experiences a distinct low mortality profile. The evaluation … basis of two mortality indicators for the 80-99 age-interval lead to the same conclusion: Canadian mortality is lower than …

In this paper, we use the multiple cause-of-death approach to compare the mortality profiles of France and Italy in …

-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. …