mortality, but as cardiovascular diseases declined this later shifted to advanced ages. Between the mid-1980s and early 1990s … life expectancy improvements stagnated as the mortality risk from traffic accidents and HIV/AIDS in young adults increased …. Both the age-delay in old-age mortality and the simultaneous influence of behaviour and life style reflect distinct aspects …

responsible for more years of life lost in 2000 than in 1970 despite the fact that declines in cancer mortality contributed to …

fertility, migration, and mortality. Both disciplines share a common research object, namely human populations, and they focus …

This article analyses changes in marital status differences in mortality from approximately 1970 to 1995 among men and … sources. According to the results there has been a trend towards increasing excess mortality among single men compared to … the 1980s and 1990s. This has been brought about by a more rapid decline in mortality among married persons and a slower …

In this paper, I examine differentials in under-five mortality for the state of São Paulo, Brazil, between urban and … inequalities in under-five mortality for urban areas. During the period 1970-1991, much of the infant and child mortality … transition unfolded in São Paulo. I investigate whether these improvements in mortality were accompanied by narrowing …

has improved more rapidly than in other CEE countries. Mortality from circulatory diseases decreased significantly at … higher ages. The recent decline in mortality is likely to be attributable to technical progress in medical treatment and less …

have globally improved, it is still a concern in several developing countries of Sub-saharan Africa. The infant mortality …

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. …

pollution on mortality in China. We find that a 10-μg/m^3 (roughly 10%) decrease in PM_10 concentrations reduces monthly … standardized all-cause mortality by 6.63%. The mortality reduction during the Olympics is mainly driven by fewer …