The Life Table Modelling Survival and Death

The Life Table Modelling Survival and Death / edited by Guillaume Wunsch, Michel Mouchart, Josianne Duchêne.

Guillaume Wunsch, Michel Mouchart, Josianne Duchene This book is an outcome of the activities of the Working Group on Health, Morbidity, and Mortality Differentials of the European Association for Population Studies, which was chaired for some years by one of the present editors (G. Wunsch). In coll...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Wunsch, Guillaume (Editor), Mouchart, Michel (Editor), Duchêne, Josianne (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
Edition:1st ed. 2002.
Series:European Studies of Population, 11
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Demography.
Population.
Epidemiology.
Business.
Management science.
Statistics .
Public health.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The life table: A demographic overview
  • 2. The construction of life tables
  • 3. Methods of decomposition of differences between life expectancies at birth by causes of death
  • 4. Of entropies and inequalities: Summary measures of the age distribution of mortality
  • 5. Age, period and cohort components in analysing past and projecting future mortality trends
  • 6. Parameterisation as a tool in analysing age, period and cohort effects on mortality: A case study of the Netherlands
  • 7. The registration of causes of death: Problems of comparability
  • 8. Gains in life expectancy by eliminating major causes of death: Revised estimates taking into account competing causes of death
  • 9. The measurement of mortality by cause and of morbidity
  • 10. Competing risks models: Problems of modelling and of identification
  • 11. Use of demographic tools in the assessment of the health level of populations
  • 12. The life table: A sociological overview
  • List of authors.

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