Der Tod macht alle Menschen gleich, dennoch sind nicht alle gleichmäßig betroffen. Unterschiede in der Sterblichkeit …. Eine Analyse der allgemeinen Sterblichkeit von Deutschen Bürgern im Alter von 20 bis 49 im Jahre 2004 wurde durchgeführt … die Sterblichkeit in Deutschland stärker einem Nord\Ost-Sued\West-Trend als einem einem Ost-West-Trend. Das Pro …

-income economies in general, mortality tends to evolve better in recessions than in expansions. It has been suggested that Sweden may … be an exception to this pattern. The present investigation shows, however, that in the period 1968–2003 mortality … pattern is evidenced by the oscillations of life expectancy, total mortality, and age- and sex-specific mortality rates at the …

Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Data on disease-specific child mortality were from the World Health Organization. Data on the …Context The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set targets related to important global poverty, health … child mortality as a result of interventions related to the environmental and nutritional MDGs (improving child nutrition …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

In recent years, increasing attention has turned toward the effect of health information or health knowledge on … nutrient intake. In determining the effect of health information on nutrient demand, researchers face the estimation problem of … dealing with the endogeneity of health information knowledge. The standard approach for dealing with this problem is an …

We used data collected for the National Animal Health Monitoring Systems' (NAHMS) National Swine Survey to estimate the … used the costs and returns data to calculate the associated income lost from each mortality, and predicted the increase in … income that would result from reduced preweaning mortality in each herd size and region. Weprovide estimation methods that …

concerns the summary measurement of the extent of social inequalities in health. Income dynamics and adult mortality: Canada …This dissertation contains two empirical papers on income and premature mortality, and one methodological paper that … and the USAChapter 4 examines the effects of income level and income drops on all-cause mortality in Canada and the United …