Over the last ten years, the modal age at death has become a focus of research on human longevity, notably because it provides information about the most frequent adult age at death without being influenced by mortality conditions at early ages. Little is known about levels and trends in adult...

type="main" <p>We investigate a major turning point in mortality trends at adult ages that occurred for many low-mortality countries in the late 1960s or early 1970s. We analyze patterns of total and cause-specific mortality over the past 60 years using data from the Human Mortality Database and...</p>

Bourbeau (Robert), Émond (Valerie). - Socio-demographic characteristics and mortality of Meml analysis of Members of Parliament in Quebec in the XIXth and XXth centuries. A cohort Members of Parliament in Quebec are a select group of the population, and it would be expected that their mortality...

Data furnished by the Régie de l'Assurance Automobile du Québec (RAAQ) were used to describe the geography of motor vehicle accidents in the province of Quebec for the period 1983-1988. These were also used to evaluate the risk factors associated with zones of high risk with regards to...