econometric models and by using the within-country variation of the mortality rates and food consumption instead of the between … are applied. The results indicate fairly well that milk consumption increases both the mortality rate of prostate cancer … as well as the mortality rate of ovarian cancer. The estimated effects are also important in quantitative terms, i.e., a …

Although a large number of mortality projection models have been proposed in the literature, relatively little … framework for embedding more than one mortality projection model and utilise the finite mixture model concept to allow for the … and coherently to have a more detailed description of the underlying mortality patterns. We show that the proposed …