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Mortality Implications of Mortality Plateaus [PDF]
SIAM Review, 2015 Summary: This article aims to describe in a unified framework all plateau-generating random effects models in terms of (i) plausible distributions for the hazard (baseline mortality) and the random effect (unobserved heterogeneity, frailty) as well as (ii) the impact of frailty on the baseline hazard.
Trifon I. Missov, James W. Vaupel
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Future Mortality in Low-Mortality Countries [PDF]
Institut für Demographie - VID, 2014 4802 This paper provides an overview of past and expected future trends in life expectancy in populations of today's low mortality countries. Because these populations previously experienced strong decreases in infant mortality, the future mortality trends will be driven mainly by mortality among the old and oldest-old.
Caselli, Graziella +9 more
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Mortality and Excess Mortality: Improving FluMOMO [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 FluMOMO is a universal formula to forecast mortality in 27 European countries and was developed on EuroMOMO context, http://www.euromomo.eu. The model has a trigonometric baseline and considers any upwards deviation from that to come from flu or extreme temperatures.
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SSM: Population Health, 2020 Early childhood adversities are known to impair the development potential of children, however, there is limited evidence for the same in the Indian context. This study provides evidence of the effect of relevant biological and social risk factors during
Ronak Paul, Abhishek Singh
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Trends in inequality in length of life in India: a decomposition analysis by age and causes of death
Genus, 2017 Background Studies dealing with trends in inequality in length of life in India are rare. Studies documenting the contribution of age and causes of death to the inequality in length of life are more limited. Objective The study aims to examine the trends
Abhishek Singh +3 more
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Racial disparities in mortality in the adult hispanic population
SSM: Population Health, 2020 Objective: We addressed three research questions: (1) Are there racial mortality disparities in the adult Hispanic population that resemble those observed in the non-Hispanic population in the US? (2) Does nativity mediate the race-mortality relationship
Elizabeth Arias +2 more
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A retrospective review of the contribution of rare diseases to paediatric mortality in Ireland
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2020 Aims To ascertain the number of paediatric deaths (0–14 years) with an underlying rare disease in the Republic of Ireland between the years 2006–2016, and to analyse bed usage by a paediatric cohort of rare disease inpatients prior to in-hospital death ...
Emer Gunne +5 more
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On the Mortality of Companies [PDF]
Entropy, 2022 Using data from both the US and UK we examine the survival and mortality of companies in both the early stage or start-up and mature phases. The shape of the mortality curve is broadly similar to that of humans. Even small single cellular organisms such as rotifers have a similar shape.
Peter Richmond, Bertrand M. Roehner
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BMC Public Health, 2020 Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are the most exposed to hepatitis C virus (HCV). In Thailand, drug use is highly criminalized, and harm reduction services are scarce. This study estimates risky injection practices and assesses the proportion of
Myrtille Prouté +8 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 In light of the high and rising prevalence of obesity, we studied females and males aged 25–54 years with excess weight in the Kolkata metropolitan region, one of India's main cities, to understand the perception, environmental determinants and health ...
Somdutta Barua, Nandita Saikia
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