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We examine gender and race differences in education-mortality trends among 25-64 year olds in the United States from … 2001-2018. The data indicate that the relationships are heterogeneous with larger mortality reductions for less educated … death associated with changes in overall mortality rates and identify key differences across race groups and education …
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show that variance in length of life is inversely related to the Gompertz slope of log mortality through age, and we reveal … and forecasting mortality. In particular, we examine how the assumption of proportional hazards fails to account …
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impact of federal assimilation policies on childhood mortality. We use children ever born and children surviving data … included in the censuses to estimate childhood mortality and [responses to] several questions unique to the Indian enumeration … allotment] to construct multivariate models of child mortality. The results suggest that mortality among American Indians in the …
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As of June 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has led to more than 2.3 million confirmed infections and 121 thousand fatalities in the United States, with starkly different incidence by race and ethnicity. Our study examines racial and ethnic disparities in confirmed COVID-19 cases across six...
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The level of infant and under-five mortality is high among scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs) in India …. This study intends to quantify the contribution of education in explaining the gap in infant and under-five mortality … approach using full birth histories was used to estimate childhood mortality. We performed binary logistic regression analysis …
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The Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Carter v Canada (Attorney General) 2015 SCC 5 decriminalized physician assisted death in certain defined circumstances. One of those circumstances is that the person seeking assistance be an “adult”. This article argues that the regulatory response...
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