Editors:
- Includes comprehensive coverage of adult mortality differentials worldwide
- Identifies and discusses central factors related to mortality risk
- Documents and explains mortality differentials
- Contributions by authors from top universities, research centers, and government organizations from around the world
Part of the book series: International Handbooks of Population (IHOP, volume 2)
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Biological Risk Factors
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Front Matter
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Contextual Effects on Mortality
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Front Matter
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Classification of Causes of Death
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Front Matter
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Mathematical and Modeling Approaches to Mortality
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Front Matter
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Government Policies Designed to Affect Mortality
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- AIDS mortality
- Adult mortality
- Africa
- Age patterns
- Asia
- Biological risk factors
- Biomarkers
- Black Americans
- Caribbean
- Causes of death
- Demographic datasets and methods
- Early life conditions
- Europe
- Former Sovjet Union
- Genetic factors
- Health behaviors
- Homicide
- Infectious disease
- Japanese life expectancy
- Latin America
- Life expectancy
- Neighborhood effects
- Political Economic conflict
- Religion
- Social relations
- Suicide
- United States
Reviews
"Over the past few decades researchers have generated numerous publications highlighting advances in trends and determinants of adult mortality changes. Now, Richard Rogers and Eileen Crimmins have engaged many of the leading contributors to that storehouse of information to place in a single volume the present state of knowledge about human adult mortality, its variations over time and place and its many causes, as well as influential policy formulations. The book’s rich and elaborate treatment of the subject, including methodological considerations and extensive literature reviews, establishes a benchmark for monitoring future developments of the subject that other researchers and students will rely on for years to come".
Charles B. Nam, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, Florida State University
"There is very considerable diversity both within and among countries in the mortality experience of adults, and this diversity is well captured, described and explained in the course of this book. This wide-ranging and exhaustive collection of studies of adult mortality gives a fascinating account. A complete analysis of the characteristics of adult morality and its extension to the morbid process preceding death, but above all the involvement of scholars from various disciplines, make this book an important reference point not only for the academic world – researchers, teachers and students – but also for the political world and those working in the health services. Its contents are particularly valuable for implementing health and social policies that aim to reduce the consequences of inequality and thus to provide better health for all".
Graziella Caselli, University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
"This book is a landmark publication. It comes close to being a recipe for a long and healthy life. The book lays out the factors that explain the gains in life expectancy and healthexpectancy witnessed across the world. They are genetic, behavioral, social, environmental and institutional. Richard Rogers and Eileen Crimmins assembled an interdisciplinary team of first-class scientists from different countries of the world to uncover the secrets of avoidable mortality and delayed morbidity. The book also documents why in some countries life expectancy stagnated and in some places even declined. The historical and global perspective on mortality change makes the International Handbook of Adult Mortality a must-read for anyone interested in living longer and postponing disease and disability. The book will be a standard reference for years to come".
Frans Willekens, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
"An outstanding job of organizing and synthesizing knowledge in all of the important areas of research on adult mortality. By consolidating a surprisingly rich array of major research accomplishments, the volume sets the stage for rapid advances in the future."
Samuel H. Preston, Fredrick J. Warren Professor of Demography, University of Pennsylvania
Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, USA
Richard G. Rogers
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Davis School of Gerontology, Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Eileen M. Crimmins
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Handbook of Adult Mortality
Editors: Richard G. Rogers, Eileen M. Crimmins
Series Title: International Handbooks of Population
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9996-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9995-2Published: 20 February 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3536-1Published: 21 April 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9996-9Published: 18 February 2011
Series ISSN: 1877-9204
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1877
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 626
Topics: Demography, Sociology, general