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Recent literature recognises that improvements in longevity seen over the last 70 years are the result of the interaction of multiple factors that are both biologically and environmentally based, but quantification of the relative impact of the various factors has proved elusive. This paper...
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Malaria potentially affects everyone in the tropics and sub-tropics, however, the poor and vulnerable are worse affected mainly due to the socio-economic constraints that confront them. In Ghana, the Upper West Region, which is the poorest, is one of the worse affected in terms of malaria...
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Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We find that for each year of later birth, health deficits decline by on …
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, Germany, Sweden and Netherlands have also seen a sharp slowdown. Overall, the pace of mortality improvement has slowed in …. Improvements in cardiovascular (CVD) disease mortality have slowed in many countries, respiratory diseases, including influenza and … countries, notably the USA and the UK, mortality improvements have also slowed or even reversed among working age adults because …
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Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction … of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9 to 12% decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it also … reinforcing evidence from the period in which the United States experienced rapid declines in maternal mortality. The historical …
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Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction … of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9-12 per cent decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it … mortality. The historical decline made feasible by the introduction of antibiotics was significantly greater in states that had …
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Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction … of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9 to 12% decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it also … reinforcing evidence from the period in which the United States experienced rapid declines in maternal mortality. The historical …
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mortality, institutionalization and homelessness for the largest Indigenous population in Canada from the ages of 5 to 64. We … identify mortality rates at least twice the Canadian average and find exceptionally high mortality rates for young Indigenous … women and girls – up to four times the Canadian average at certain ages. We show mortality rates are even higher on reserve …
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We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary...
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The risk of mortality in breast cancer among women is a critical health issue worldwide. Scholars argue that breast … cancer mortality rates have decreased in many advanced countries overall. How-ever, about 50% of world population in 2017 was … in poor and developing countries (more than 3,652 million with 50.24% female) and breast cancer mortality rates differ …
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