The paper investigates the effect of child malnutrition on the risk of mortality in Burundi, a very poor country … order to address the problem of omitted variables correlated with both nutritional status and the risk of mortality, we use …

We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several … schooling or lower mortality rates, thus excluding that the main findings reflect direct effects of military service on … subsequent mortality rather than a causal effect of schooling. We conclude that increasing the proportion of high school …

Population mortality forecasts are widely used for allocating public health expenditures, setting research priorities … great deal about patterns in and causes of mortality, most forecasts are still based on simple linear extrapolations that …-specific forecasts of American mortality that simultaneously incorporate, in a formal statistical model, the effects of the recent rapid …

article, suicide is placed within the general perspective of declining All Causes mortality. It is shown that suicide is …

studies we find that among the early variables recorded at age 12 the only significant determinant of adult mortality is …

and the mortality data. The second section discusses the variation of mortality rates with age in the population and in …

can be explained in terms of reduction in child mortality due to the immunization program. Kumar (2009) finds that UIP has … a significant and negative eect on infant and under-five mortality. …