Future of Mortality in High Mortality Countries
In: World Population and Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014)
In: World Population and Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014)
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In: Journal of Economics and Business, Vol.4 No.1 (2021)
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In: UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2010 ACTL 05
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In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 369, Heft 1, S. 16-25
ISSN: 1552-3349
Expectation of life at birth has nearly doubled in the more developed countries in the last 150 years, and now often exceeds seventy years. Better water supplies and sani tation, the effective control of dangerous infectious and parasitic diseases, and higher living standards and educational standards have all contributed to this improvement. In the developed countries, death rates are now very low for all age-groups except the older adults. Accidents are the major cause of death of teen-age children and young adults, while heart diseases and cancer are responsible for the deaths of over half of older people. A feature of the reduction in death rates has been the increased excess mortality of males. There have also been big and rapid reductions in death rates in many developing countries, even in the absence of important improvements in living standards. Antibiotics and insecticides have made a major contribution to this movement in the last twenty years. It is unlikely that death rates will fall as rapidly in the next few decades as in the recent past in either developed or developing countries.
In: From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century, S. 267-296
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In: Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Band 112, Heft 648, S. 364-369
ISSN: 1744-0378
In: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis; Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age Mortality, S. 5-14
In: European Studies of Population Ser. v.18
This volume presents a state of the art coverage of the measurement and evolution of mortality over time.? It describes in great detail the changes in the cause patterns of mortality, the changes in mortality patterns at different ages, and specific analyses of mortality in particular countries. Derived from a meeting of the European Working Group on Health, Morbidity and Mortality held at the Vienna Institute of Demography, September 2011, it presents a cross-section of the work and concerns of mortality? researchers across Europe, ranging from London and Madrid in the west to Moscow in the east, with a few additions from further afield. Although most of the papers focus on a particular population, the range of the papers is broad; taken together they present an inter-disciplinary cross-section of this multi-faceted field. Coverage includes estimating life expectancy in small areas, with an application to recent changes in US counties; socioeconomic determinants of mortality in Europe using the latest available data and short-term forecasts; predicting mortality from profiles of biological risk and performance measures of functioning; infant mortality measurement and rate of progress on international commitment using evidence from Argentina; avoidable factors contributing to maternal deaths in Turkey; changes in mortality at older ages: the case of Spain (1975- 2006); variable scales of avoidable mortality within the Russian population;? long-term mortality decline in East Asia, and much more. Perspectives in Mortality Research will serve as a valuable resource for professionals and students in sociology, demography, public health and personal finance.
In: European Studies of Population, 18
This volume presents a state of the art coverage of the measurement and evolution of mortality over time. It describes in great detail the changes in the cause patterns of mortality, the changes in mortality patterns at different ages, and specific analyses of mortality in particular countries. Derived from a meeting of the European Working Group on Health, Morbidity and Mortality held at the Vienna Institute of Demography, September 2011, it presents a cross-section of the work and concerns of mortality researchers across Europe, ranging from London and Madrid in the west to Moscow in the east, with a few additions from further afield. Although most of the papers focus on a particular population, the range of the papers is broad; taken together they present an inter-disciplinary cross-section of this multi-faceted field. Coverage includes estimating life expectancy in small areas, with an application to recent changes in US counties; socioeconomic determinants of mortality in Europe using the latest available data and short-term forecasts; predicting mortality from profiles of biological risk and performance measures of functioning; infant mortality measurement and rate of progress on international commitment using evidence from Argentina; avoidable factors contributing to maternal deaths in Turkey; changes in mortality at older ages: the case of Spain (1975- 2006); variable scales of avoidable mortality within the Russian population; long-term mortality decline in East Asia, and much more. Perspectives in Mortality Research will serve as a valuable resource for professionals and students in sociology, demography, public health and personal finance.
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