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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Adult mortality."”.
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A cohort perspective of U.S. adult mortality
… in racial and educational disparities in U.S. adult mortality. The project is organized around three themes. First, I emphasize that recent temporal changes in U.S. adult mortality risk are rooted in cohort forces. Unfortunately, much of the mortality literature has failed to account for the …
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Child and adult mortality in Zimbabwe, 1980-2005
… estimates of the level and trends of child and adult mortality in Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2005.
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An event history analysis of socio-economic determinants of adult mortality in Namibia
Adult mortality remains a neglected public issue in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA), with most policy instruments concentrated on child and maternal health. Lack of vital registration system in SSA, further, has made it impossible to accurately estimate adult mortality. However, interest to better …
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The estimation and interpretation of adult mortality rates of African South Africans using Census 2001 data
This research develops estimates of mortality rates for adult Africans in South Africa for the twelve months preceding the census night, 9/10 October 2Q(B, using Census 2001 10% sample data. The approach used to estimate these rates follow the work done by Dorrington, Moultrie and Timaeus (2004) …
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Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study
… and Bamgboye (1981) and whether estimates of mortality produced using year of death data are any better than those derived using the conventional orphanhood method.
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Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using information on the year-of-death of parents from the 2016 Community Survey
… to facilitate the direct estimation of adult mortality. This has necessitated the development of indirect methods such as the orphanhood method. These methods are however limited, i.e., the single-survey approach produces out of date estimates of mortality and the two-survey approach is …
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Evaluating the adequacy of the method of using vital registration and census data in estimating adult mortality when applied sub-provincially
… of death data that can be used to estimate adult mortality provided they are sufficiently complete. However, they are usually insufficient for estimating mortality sub-nationally due to incomplete registration. This research adapts a method used by Dorrington, Moultrie and Timæus at the …
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Evaluating the plausibility of the method of using both the civil registration and census data in estimating adult mortality at district level in South Africa, circa 2011
The challenge in estimating mortality, both at national and sub-national levels, in developing countries such as South Africa is that neither of the death data sources (vital registration and census) are one hundred percent complete, that is, vital registration data is prone to incompleteness and …
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The effect of the ACA Medicaid expansions on mortality : evidence from state border counties.
… Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid Reform on adult mortality at the county level. This thesis uses a difference-in-difference (DD) causal inference research design to study the impacts of the ACA Medicaid expansion on adult mortality rates and the spillover effects potentially caused by it. …
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Estimation of the level and trend of adult motrality in Zambia
… and reliable estimates of level and trend in adult mortality in Zambia. To derive the estimates of the level and trend in adult mortality, the study applies the following techniques: the Census Survival method and Preston-Bennett method to Zambian census data for 1980, 1990 and 2000 to …
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Essays on health economics and development policies
… in utero exposure to malaria and long-term adult socioeconomic conditions in Brazil, which documents the positive effects of malaria eradication on educational attainment. The second chapter refers to the connection between early childhood environment and adult health by exploring the …
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Sublethal dosage effects of carbaryl on honey bee (Apis mellifera (L.)) colonies
… effect were examined: brood production, brood mortality, adult mortality, colony weight change, and worker resistance to the toxicant. The carbaryl dosages appeared to fall within the sublethal range. No significant differences (P≤0.05) in adult mortality were found between Control and carbaryl …
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Ecological Causes of Life History Variation Tested by Meta-analysis, Comparison, and Experimental Approaches
… `slow' life history traits (low fecundity and mortality) and species at high latitudes have `fast' life history traits (high fecundity and mortality), is the increase in seasonality of resources with increasing latitude (Ashmole's hypothesis). Despite broad acceptance, this hypothesis has been …
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Ecological Causes of Life History Variation Tested by Meta-analysis, Comparison, and Experimental Approaches
… `slow' life history traits (low fecundity and mortality) and species at high latitudes have `fast' life history traits (high fecundity and mortality), is the increase in seasonality of resources with increasing latitude (Ashmole's hypothesis). Despite broad acceptance, this hypothesis has been …
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System level assessment of uncertainty in aviation environmental policy impact analysis
… variability of system outputs, which here are adult mortality rates and total health cost. The assessment results show that none of the input factors of AEDT contribute significantly to the variability of system outputs. Therefore, if uncertainty reduction in the estimation of adult mortality …
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Investigating biases in census questions on mortality using Agincourt heath and demographic surveillance system data
… of the impact of using these data in estimating mortality derived from census data. While demographic methods are often used to determine the direction of bias in the data, direct evaluation studies are required to determine the nature and extent of biases with more accuracy. Equally important is …
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The ecological life history of the Cape Bulbul
… species in the area. There is a 25% annual adult mortality with life expectancy of an adult about three years. Competition for food is negligible. Predators concern mainly the nesting cycle. Clutch size which is two or three is not regulated by food supply or population changes. Main changes …
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An Ecosystem Model with Evolutionary Adaptive Trophic Structure
… history theory pre- dicts that reduced juvenile mortality selects for delayed maturity and decreased reproductive effort, and reduced adult mortality will select for the opposite. Through the inclusion of a different trait to represent relative parental investment in offspring, we explore the …
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Ecology of pronghorns on the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado
… to initiation of military training. Forty-seven adults and 32 fawns were radio marked; 247 adults were color collared or ear tagged only. Using aerial strip and quadrat surveys, I estimated a summer population for 1983, 1984, and 1985 of 694, 690, and 657 respectively. Adult female pregnancy rate …
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Ecology of mule deer on the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado
… during January 1983-December 1984. Thirty-eight adults and 28 fawns were radio collared, and 35 adults were color collared or ear tagged. Population estimates were 365 and 370 deer for 1983 and 1984, respectively. The sex ratio (yearling and adult) was 60 males: 100 females. Adult female …
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