Population studies of mortality

Population Studies
S H Preston

Abstract

Population Studies has become the principal outlet for demographic research on mortality. Many of the advances in the measurement of mortality in data-poor countries were reported in its pages. It has also published most of the influential articles which attempted to make a broad-scale assessment of the sources of mortality change. These include special attention to developments in England and Wales and Sri Lanka. Capitalizing on the widespread availability of demographic surveys, articles in the 1980s featured careful analyses of the demographic correlates of child mortality. Such studies have passed the point of diminishing returns, and declines in child mortality have focused increased attention on conditions among adults. Unfortunately, demography has not developed the means for measuring and analysing adult mortality in underdeveloped countries that are equivalent in their power to methods for studying child mortality.

Citations

May 15, 2013·Continuity and Change·Susan Hautaniemi LeonardDouglas L Anderton
May 4, 2002·American Journal of Public Health·James Colgrove
Jul 21, 2010·Social Science Research·Nathalie Williams
Feb 6, 2008·Journal of Health Economics·José A Tapia Granados, Edward L Ionides
Oct 16, 2004·Social Science & Medicine·Jason Schnittker
Mar 28, 2017·Health Economics·José A Tapia Granados, Edward L Ionides
Jan 19, 2002·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences·S P Morgan, S M Lynch
Jan 19, 2002·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences·J C Caldwell
Jun 1, 2005·The American Economic Review·Rodrigo R Soares
Oct 26, 2005·International Journal of Epidemiology·José A Tapia Granados

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