Differential Mortality Methodological Issues and Biosocial Factors

by Ruzicka, Lado; Wunsch, Guillaume; Kane, Penny

• ISBN13: 9780198288824
• ISBN10: 0198288824
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-24
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

There are strongly pronounced differentials between survival chances for different social classes in less developed countries. This book gives insight into the variety of factorsDSbiological, social, economic and culturalDSassociated with these inequalities in mortality rates. Certain of thepapers deal with new conceptual approaches and methodological issues, while others cover particular countries in Asia and Latin America, providing overall an important and provoking study of inequality in death. Contributors: L. Ruzicka, J. Duchene, G. Wunsch, R. H. Gray, S. Horiuchi, S. D'Souza, E. E. Arriaga, J. M. Guzman, B. Utomo, M. B. Iskandar, N. H. Fisek, A. Palloni, G. C. Myers, A. Bouckaert, P. Kane

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Problems and Issues in the Study of Mortality Differentials	p. 3
Methodological Issues	p. 19
Conceptual Frameworks and Causal Modelling	p. 21
References	p. 34
The Integration of Demographic and Epidemiologic Approaches to Studies of Health in Developing Countries	p. 58
Some Methodological Issues in the Assessment of the Deceleration of the Mortality Decline	p. 64
References	p. 76
Measures of Preventable Deaths in Developing Countries: Some Methodological Issues and Approaches	p. 79
Biological and Social Factors	p. 103
Changing Trends in Mortality Decline during the Last Decades	p. 105
	p. 125
Sources Of Data	p. 128
Trends in Socio-economic Differentials in Infant Mortality in Selected Latin American Countries	p. 131
References	p. 143
Socio-economic Differentials in Infant and Child Mortality in Indonesia in the 1970s: Trends, Causes, and Implications	p. 145
References	p. 154
Determinants of Child Mortality in Turkey	p. 156
Effects of Inter-birth Intervals on Infant and Early Childhood Mortality	p. 163
References	p. 186
Mortality and Health Dynamics at Older Ages	p. 189
Crisis Mortality	p. 215
Crisis Mortality: Extinction and Near- extinction of Human Populations	p. 217
References	p. 229
Famine in China 1959-61: Demographic and Social Implications	p. 231
Index	p. 255
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