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The contribution of smoking to regional mortality differences in the Netherlands
all-cause mortality Netherlands regional differences smoking smoking-related mortality socioeconomic status
2014/11/21
Background: Smoking is an important preventable determinant of morbidity and mortality. Knowledge about its role in regional mortality differences can help us to identify relevant policy areas, and to...
Changes in educational differentials in old-age mortality in Finland and Sweden between 1971-1975 and 1996-2000
differential mortality education Finland inequality measures life span disparity old age mortality Sweden
2014/11/20
Background: The majority of the studies on developed countries confirm that socioeconomic mortality inequalities have been persisting or even widening. It has also been suggested that inequalities hav...
Gender differences in social mortality differentials in Switzerland (1990-2005)
social mortality differentials Switzerland
2014/11/20
Using data from the 1990 and 2000 Swiss Federal Censuses linked to the death records
of the years 1990-1995 and 2000-2005, this paper investigates gender differences in
mortality differentials by ...
Old age, health and social inequality: Exploring the social patterns of mortality in 19th century northern Sweden
19th century life course old age mortality social differences in mortality Sundsvall region Sweden
2014/11/20
Background: Social position is one of the major determinants of health. Less is known about its effect in historical contexts. Previous studies have shown surprisingly small effects of social class in...
Point and interval forecasts of mortality rates and life expectancy: A comparison of ten principal component methods
mortality rates life expectancy Point
2014/11/20
Using the age- and sex-specific data of 14 developed countries, we compare the point
and interval forecast accuracy and bias of ten principal component methods for forecasting mortality rates a...
Discussing the Strehler-Mildvan model of mortality
force of mortality Gompertz law proportional hazards Strehler-Mildvan correlation vitality
2014/11/20
Background: Half a century ago Strehler and Mildvan (1960) have published the seminal paper that, based on some assumptions (postulates), theoretically 'justified' the Gompertz law of mortality.Object...
Changes in the age-at-death distribution in four low mortality countries: A nonparametric approach
age-at-death distribution A nonparametric approach
2014/11/20
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, important transformations have occurred in
the age-at-death distribution within human populations.
Estimating Smoking-attributable Mortality in the United States
Mortality Cigarette smoking United States Method State Geographic variation
2014/3/31
Tobacco is the largest single cause of premature death in the developed world. Two methods of estimating the number of deaths attributable to smoking use mortality from lung cancer as an indicator of ...
Social-Environmental Factors and Suicide Mortality: A Narrative Review of over 200 Articles
Suicide Social Factors Economic Factors Review Durkheim Suicide Prevention
2013/9/5
Suicide mortality in a population has long been thought to be sensitive to social, economic and cultural contexts. This review examined research on the relationship between social-environmental variab...
The Declines in Infant Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from British Cities in Demographic Transition
fertility infant mortality education and sanitary reform women’s participation education 19th century and early 20th century Britain
2012/10/22
At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain was roughly halfway through a 60-year demographic transition with declining infant mortality and birth rates. Cities exhibited great and strongly corr...
The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis
mortality transition alcohol Russia
2012/10/23
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian Mortality Crisis"). Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily a...
Black-White Differentials in Cause-Specific Mortality in the United States during the 1980s: The Role of Medical Care and Health Behaviors
National Longitudinal Mortality Study Current Population Surveys National Death Index International Classification of Disease
2014/3/31
In this paper, we examine black-white differences in cause-specific mortality during the 1980s when black-white disparities in mortality widened in the United States. We group causes of death to those...
Mortality of American Troops in Iraq
African-American Army Army Reserve Combat War Casualties Troops Death
2014/3/31
In this paper, we construct death rates for members of the military who have been deployed to Iraq. Two excellent and highly consistent websites, one of them maintained by the Department of Defense, p...
US Mortality in an International Context: Age Variations
Acute Myocardial Infarction Age Age patterns Cancer Cause of death Causes of death, Cholesterol Data
2014/3/31
Compared to other developed countries, the United States ranks poorly in terms of life
expectancy at older ages. In terms of life expectancy at age 50, it trails the world leader, Japan,
by 3.3 ye...
Health Selection and the Effect of Smoking on Mortality
life expectancy tobacco confounding
2012/10/18
We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evide...