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Mortality Profiles
The Mediterranean is currently characterised by rather low mortality. Indeed, life expectancy at birth exceeds the global average in almost all...
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Mortality Risk and Biomarkers Among the Oldest-Old
The progression of population aging and advanced population aging in China is gradually deepening, making it essential to conduct researches focusing...
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Maternal Mortality in Brazil
This study analyzes maternal mortality in Brazil from 2000 to 2017 to evidence that maternal deaths express a set of historical social inequalities...
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Does Intergenerational Solidarity with Adult Children Reduce Middle-Aged Parents’ Risk of Mortality in Later Life?
Although intergenerational solidarity with adult children has been considered to have a positive impact on older parents’ well-being, less is known...
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Association Between Motoric Cognitive Risk Syndrome and Risk of Mortality in Older Adults: Results of a 5-year Retrospective Cohort
Motoric cognitive risk syndrome (MCR) envelops a set of cognitive and motor complaints, determined by slow gait, subjective memory complaints,...
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Adult Mortality in India: Trends, Socio-economic Disparities and Consequences
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the adult mortality situation in India. Each chapter ranges from general adult mortality patterns to...
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Joint predictability of physical frailty/pre-frailty and subjective memory complaints on mortality risk among cognitively unimpaired older adults
The aim of the present study was to investigate how frailty/pre-frailty in combination with subjective memory complaints predicts all-cause mortality...
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Analysis on Influence Factors on Mortality Risk of the Elderly with Mild Cognitive Impairment
This study examined key factors associated with the mortality risk in elderly people with mild cognitive impairment in mainland China, and found that...
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Impacts of Changes in Living Arrangements on Elderly Mortality Risk
Based on CLHLS 2002–2008 data, this chapter uses propensity score analysis and frailty Cox models to examine the impacts of changes in living...
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Female Under-Five Mortality in India
The chapter provides an update on sex differentials in under-five mortality in India, focusing on geographical variation using data from the National...
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Map** Global Risk of River Flood Mortality
Globally, river flooding induced by heavy rainfall frequently causes fatalities every year (Jongman et al. 2015; CERD and UNISDR 2018; CRED 2019)....
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Historical Mortality Dynamics on the Baja California Peninsula
Historical demographic research shows that the factors influencing mortality risk are labile across time and space. This is particularly true for...
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Obesity and Mortality
The study of obesity and mortality has elicited many controversies over the past two decades. Nonetheless, there has been a growing consensus that...
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Risk of Covid-19 Severe Outcomes and Mortality in Migrants and Ethnic Minorities Compared to the General Population in the European WHO Region: a Systematic Review
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on migrants and ethnic minorities (MEMs). Socio-economic factors and legal, administrative and language...
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Methods for disentangling period and cohort changes in mortality risk over the twentieth century: comparing graphical and modelling approaches
This paper explores changes in age-specific mortality risk across periods and cohorts during the twentieth century in the developed world. We use and...
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Regional Patterns of Adult Mortality by Sex and Place of Residence in India
This chapter examined the level, trends, and differential patterns of adult mortality by sex (male–female) and place of residence (rural–urban) in...
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Environmental correlates of mortality: How does air pollution contribute to geographic disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality?
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States, but CVD mortality rates vary substantially across U.S. counties....
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Changing Adult Mortality in India: Converging or Diverging
This chapter examined the long-term trajectories across the states and tested the convergence hypothesis of whether the inequality in adult mortality...
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Heat, Mortality, and Health
Climate change has led to an increased frequency, duration, and intensity of heat waves, and extreme heat is projected to worsen in severity over the...