of northeastern Japan. Instead, the mortality rate from the massive waves varied tremendously from zero to ten percent of … of the Tohoku region to untangle the factors connected to mortality during the disaster. With data on demographic … of social capital, and level of political support for the long-ruling LDP strongly influenced mortality rates. Given the …

report causal effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality ranging anywhere from zero to large and negative … mortality gain and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that more education yields small mortality … reductions in the short- and long-run for men. In contrast, women seem to experience no mortality reductions from compulsory …

contribution of social contact to mortality. Furthermore, no study has sufficiently explored the factors that may moderate the … relationship between contact frequency and mortality. We conducted meta-analyses and meta-regressions to examine 187 all …-cause mortality risk estimates from 91 publications, providing data on about 400,000 persons. The mean hazard ratio (HR) for mortality …

The effect of unemployment on mortality is the object of a lively literature. However, this literature is characterized … regression of mortality. The estimating equation allows for a quadratic relationship between unemployment and mortality. We … control for various other determinants of mortality at regional and national level and we include region-specific and time …

mechanisms are relevant at any given time. To test this theory we compared the magnitude of inequalities in mortality between … more and less preventable causes of death in 19 European populations, and assessed whether inequalities in mortality from …

This study examines the relationship between education and mortality, its underlying mechanisms, and its gender and age … Survey. There is an inverse relationship between education and mortality risk. The relationship is explained in full by each … partially by physical exercise. In addition, primary education has a stronger effect on mortality for men than for women and the …

-communist transitions to show the effect on health (measured as life expectancy and cause-specific mortality) of the interaction between …

This paper develops and applies an integrated model of mortality and morbidity valuation that is consistent with the …

disadvantaged socioeconomic groups are not hit harder by pro-cyclical mortality than advantaged groups. We also find that other …-cyclical mortality is rather related to deaths of people already in deteriorated health than to people of low socioeconomic status. …

The aim of this study is to examine Hungarian mortality situation and to analyse its spatial aspects. The conclusion is … and mortality situation in Hungary is almost unparalleled among the post Socialist Countries and currently worse … justifi ed by the level of economic development. There are signifi cant mortality differentials between the Western and the …