This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian … health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …

: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of … work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …

We analyse the relationship between unemployment and self-assessed health using the European Community Household Panel … a cross-section, unemployment is associated with poor self-assessed health. However, we are somewhat more likely to … obtain the negative effects of unemployment on health when long-term unemployment is used as the measure of unemployment …

importance of secularly declining young adult mortality risk for producing secularly declining fertility and a sudden decline in …

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 …

die from infectious disease, childhood health affects human capital and noninfectious-disease related adult mortality … that life expectancy at birth is a poor indicator of population health unless morbidity falls with mortality. …. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in western Europe, labor productivity improves, fertility falls and …

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 quality and quantity of life. The model can generate a poverty trap …

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 …

, birth rate, mortality rate, and life expectancy are the major determinants of rapid population growth rate, while youth …

the Project "Analysis of trends and patterns of mortality in the ESCAP region". Six countries including Bangladesh, China … should be national compilations of data. This report analyses mortality trends and patterns in Pakistan and is organised in … three parts. The first part consists of country profile, levels and trends of mortality, mortality differentials and …