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die from infectious disease, childhood health affects human capital and noninfectious-disease related adult mortality …. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in western Europe, labor productivity improves, fertility falls and … that life expectancy at birth is a poor indicator of population health unless morbidity falls with mortality. …
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This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian …
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and the government bodies in the developed world. Significant and consistent improvements in mortality rates and hence … explosion of stochastic mortality models forecasting trends in mortality data in order to anticipate future life expectancy and … hence quantify the costs of providing for future ageing populations. Many stochastic models of mortality rates identify …
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can be explained in terms of reduction in child mortality due to the immunization program. Kumar (2009) finds that UIP has … a significant and negative eect on infant and under-five mortality. …
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importance of secularly declining young adult mortality risk for producing secularly declining fertility and a sudden decline in …
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This paper disc;usses socioeconomic mortality differentials in Pakistan on the basis of data collected in 1979 from a …, land holding, tenurial status, and the mortality experience of households. The mortality data obtained from the PLM survey … are discussed briefly in the first section of the paper; Mortality differentials by characteristics of the child, mother …
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We study the dynamics of poverty and health in a model of endogenous growth and rational health behavior. Population health depends on the prevalence of infectious diseases that can be avoided through costly prevention. The incentive to do so comes from the negative effects of ill health on the...
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The present paper made an attempt to understand the impact schooling/education on the mortality rate in India, in a … developing country context. Present study aims at looking into differences in mortality rate by the status of completion of …
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trend review of population growth determinants between developing countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Mexico and …, birth rate, mortality rate, and life expectancy are the major determinants of rapid population growth rate, while youth … growth threat in developing countries. However, the analysis further indicated that excluding Mexico from the Upper Middle …
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