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Economics Meets Mortality
… intersections between economic conditions and mortality through three empirical chapters, each analysing a distinct facet of how economic instability impacts death outcomes. The first chapter, "The Silent Killer: The Impact of Unemployment on Mortality", leverages rich Hungarian panel microdata …
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Expanding the South African Rapid Mortality Surveillance to cover provincial mortality
Mortality estimates are useful for evaluating health status for a country. These estimates, especially for a country heavily affected by HIV epidemic and at the sub-national level, are a foundation in formulating health strategies and policies to reduce premature deaths and improve quality of life. …
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Infant Mortality in Zambia
… to the study and understanding of infant mortality for any country cannot be overestimated. Infant mortality rate is a sensitive index of socio-economic conditions of a population. It is an excellent indicator of the level and quality of the health delivery system and other infrastructure …
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Infant Mortality in Zambia
… to the study and understanding of infant mortality for any country cannot be overestimated. Infant mortality rate is a sensitive index of socio-economic conditions of a population. It is an excellent indicator of the level and quality of the health delivery system and other infrastructure …
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Mortality differentials in Michigan
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture & Applied Science,
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Exploring mortality through Pascalian intuition
This work is an exploration of the concept of mortality, which attempts to answer the question of what attitude we should have toward death. It attempts this answer, through an alternative reconstruction of Blaise Pascal's lines of thought in his Pensées , which turns its focus on the possibility …
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Race differences in infant mortality
… death certificates, this study examines infant mortality in Illinois among the 1985-1988 white and African American live birth cohorts. The primary focus is on race differences in the effects of maternal age, education, marital status, and prenatal care on the probability of an infant death and …
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Assessment of the IGME methods of estimating infant mortality rate and neonatal mortality rate from under-five mortality rate in countries affected by HIV
… assesses the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) methods of estimating the infant and neonatal mortality rates from the under-five mortality rates in countries affected by HIV/AIDS. It uses Botswana, Malawi and South Africa as case studies. The assessment is made by …
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Mortality, morbidity and population health dynamics
… of the health of populations with low levels of mortality, using the non-Maori population in New Zealand as a case study. The primary objective is to study patterns and trends in mortality and morbidity, their interactions, and their implications for the future. The key questions addressed in …
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Suicide Mortality of Emergency Department Patients
… of these variables with subsequent suicide mortality.</p> <p><strong>Rationale </strong>Identifying patients who are most at risk of suicide mortality post ED discharge can focus resources, refine interventions, and prevent suicide. Additionally, recognizing patterns of ED care including …
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Global mortality attributable to alcoholic cardiomyopathy
… registries provide valuable information of ACM mortality. However, for the majority of countries and global population, the cardiomyopathy burden attributable to alcohol consumption needs to estimated. Established methods for estimating alcohol-attributable fractions (AAF), i.e. proportion of an …
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Chapters from modeling mortality in Hungary
… attempts to stochastically model and forecast mortality in Hungary, and aims to support the development of the population projection model of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office. From the Lee–Carter model family, we have selected both those used to forecast mortality in a single …
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Mortality modelling and longevity risk management
… many of the most common models used to study mortality rates, the construction of new mortality models, the projection of these models into the future, the impact of differences in the level and evolution of mortality rates in different populations (such as pension schemes) and the …
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"""Cymbeline"" and the romance of mortality"
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Old age mortality in South Africa
This study estimates the mortality of the South African oldest old age population (in five year age groups from age 75 up to the open age interval 100 and above) and in the process re-estimates the numbers of people in the population at these ages at the time of the 1996 and 2001 censuses, and the …
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Analysis of community cancer mortality rates
… a means to discover if distributions of cancer mortality rates among communities within a particular state, for any of the most common forms of cancer, were compatible with chance. To this end cancer mortality data for six of the largest states in the United States (California, Florida, …
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Modeling Mortality of Loblolly Pine Plantations
Accurate prediction of mortality is an important component of forest growth and yield prediction systems, yet mortality remains one of the least understood components of the system. Whole-stand and individual-tree mortality models were developed for loblolly pine plantations throughout its …
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Fertility and mortality in Puerto Rico
… of this project was to study the fertility and mortality of the people of Puerto Rico. It was found that fertility is very high and has been consistently high since 1900. It was found that mortality has declined very rapidly since 1900. Hence, the combination of these two trends is bringing …
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Age, Growth, Mortality, and the Effects of Trawling on Mortality of the Longspine Porgy, <i>Stenotomus caprinus</i>
… a slower rate (k) then those in the West region. Mortality of Longspine Porgy was calculated for each year between 1987-2011 using the catch curve analysis and length-frequency histograms for a method comparison. This resulted in the length-frequency histogram method not being as accurate, …
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