mortality and morbidity. At the global level, adolescent females 10 to 14 years of age are twice as likely to die in childbirth …

Nepal has achieved its targets for MDGs 4 and 5a. Maternal mortality declined from 790 to an estimated 190 deaths per … 100,000 live births between 1990 and 2013 an impressive 76 percent decline. Under-five mortality showed a similarly … (HNP) note explores the actions Nepal has taken to reduce maternal and child mortality. …

improving maternal and child health. Child-mortality (under 5 years old) declined from 123 to 41 deaths per 1,000 live births … between 1990 and 2012. In addition, maternal mortality more than halved from 510 to 200 deaths per 100,000 live births between …

A general law of universal maximally rapid entropy decrease unifies metabolism, mortality and evolution, yields their … quantitatively accurate universal laws and singularities, proves that accidental premature mortality is relatively small and …-terrestrial) civilizations and allows for computer simulations of mortality and evolution. …

The exact law of mortality dynamics in changing populations and environment is derived. It includes no explicit … specific natural law. Mortality is an instrument of natural selection and biological diversity. Its law, which is preserved in … evolution of all species, is a conservation law of mortality, selection, evolution, biology. The law implies new kinds of …

family firm survival rate to its roots and discuss its empirical basis and univocal reading. We then ask how the mortality of … literature on firm demography, a field which is particularly concerned with age and mortality, and identify crossroads with …

Economic and demographic outcomes are determined jointly in a choice-theoretic model of fertility, mortality and …