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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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Does Democracy Matter for Lifespan Inequalities? Regime Type and Premature Mortality by Sex
Reductions in premature mortality are widely attributed to economic, educational, and medical factors. This study contributes to our understanding of...
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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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Examining sex differences in the completeness of Peruvian CRVS data and adult mortality estimates
The production, compilation, and publication of death registration records is complex and usually involves many institutions. Assessing available...
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Early Neonatal Mortality in India
There has been a substantial decline in infant and child mortality in the recent decade compared to the Neonatal mortality rate; this has...
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Mortality and Health Developments in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro
The scope of this paper is to analyse the mortality transitionMortality transition in two newly established countries that emerged after Yugoslavia’s...
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Mortality Trends and Projection Models in Japan
This chapter provide an overview of the mortality trends and projection models for Japan. First, we describe the mortality trends in Japan. We then...
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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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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Adult Mortality in India, 1998–1999, 2015–2016, and 2019–2021
Mortality statistics by socioeconomic group of the population are the cornerstone of health policy. This chapter estimated adult mortality and life...
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Recent Changes in Human Mortality: The Case Study of Greece
In the light of Mathematical Statistics, mortality can be expressed with different parameters through multiparametric prediction models. By Beta...
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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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Introduction: Sex Worker Health in Rhode Island
This book is intended to provide a lesson for students and practicing medical professionals, but it also provides an opportunity for our community of...
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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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Losses in Life Expectancy at Birth from 2020: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Structure of Mortality by Sex and Age in Brazil
The large volume of deaths caused by Covid-19 in Brazil has led specialists to consider its negative impact on life expectancy at birth. The life...
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Patrilocality and Child Sex Ratios in India
In multi-level and multi-layered foundations of gendered approaches for understanding the kinship system, family-building behavior, son preference,...
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Child mortality inequalities and socioeconomic determinants of health in Iran, 2016–2018
Measuring health inequalities is essential to inform policy making and for monitoring implementation to reduce avoidable and unfair differences in...
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Backtesting stochastic mortality models by prediction interval-based metrics
Human lifespan increments represent one of the main current risks for governments and pension and health benefits providers. Longevity societies...
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Sex Ratio, Age Structure and Population Ageing
It is vital to examine the population composition, i.e. how the population being studied is structured. In demography, to understand the phenomena...
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Introduction: Sex-Selective Abortion at a Glance
The introductory chapter overviews existing scholarship, debates, and discussions on sex-selective abortion (SSA), including the causes, projected...
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COVID-19 and All-Cause Mortality by Race, Ethnicity, and Age Across Five Periods of the Pandemic in the United States
Racial/ethnic and age disparities in COVID-19 and all-cause mortality during 2020 are well documented, but less is known about their evolution over...
