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Demography and Health Issues

Part of the The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis Book Series (volume 46)

Editors: Skiadas, Christos H.; Skiadas, Charilaos

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76002-5

ISBN: 978-3-319-76001-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

May 17, 2018

1 - 10 of 28 Chapters

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The Health Status of a Population Estimated: The History of Health State Curves

Skiadas, Christos H.; Skiadas, Charilaos

Pages: 3 –13

[Following the recent publication of our book on “Exploring the Health State of a Population by Dynamic Modeling Methods” (DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65142-2) in “The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis” we provide this brief presentation of the main findings...
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Remarks on “Limits to Human Lifespan”

Skiadas, Christos H.

Pages: 15 –30

[We introduce and apply several methods for exploring the human lifespan process in connection to the publication by Dong et al. 2016 on “Evidence for a limit to human lifespan” in Nature in 2016 and the debate emerging mainly published in Nature as well in 2017 along with authors replies. We...
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Exploring the Health Status of a Population: A Simple Health State Model vs the Gompertz Model

Skiadas, Christos H.

Pages: 31 –39

[We present a method to formulate the Health State or Health Status curve of a population from the Gompertz model thus providing a useful tool to demographers, actuaries, policy makers, health people and organizations and sociologists. The model is presented along with a simple first exit time...
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Estimation of the Healthy Life Expectancy in Italy Through a Simple Model Based on Mortality Rate

Skiadas, Christos H.; Arezzo, Maria Felice

Pages: 41 –47

[We use an advanced methodology based on the mortality rate of a population to explore the healthy life expectancy (HALE) estimates of the World Health Organization (WHO) from the Global Burden of Disease Study. First we calculate the loss of healthy life year estimator (LHLY) and then the...
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Using Child, Adult, and Old-Age Mortality to Establish a Developing Countries Mortality Database (DCMD)

Li, Nan; Mi, Hong; Gerland, Patrick

Pages: 51 –62

[Mortality databases have been established for developed countries and effectively used for various purposes. For developing countries of which the deaths counted 78% that of the world in 2010–2015, however, reliable life tables can hardly be found. Indirect estimates of life tables using...
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A Method for the Evaluation of Health Trends in Greece, 1961–2013

Zafeiris, Konstantinos N.; Skiadas, Christos H.

Pages: 63 –70

[The period 1961–2013 is of great importance in Modern Greek History. In the 1960s several efforts at reform were followed by a period of political turmoil and finally the dictatorship of the Colonels in April 1967. The country returned to democratic normality in 1974. In 1981 Greece became a...
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A Method for the Forecasting of Mortality

Zafeiris, Konstantinos N.

Pages: 71 –82

[In population projections the problem of the estimation of future mortality trends is of central importance. In this paper a new method serving this purpose is applied. After assuming the probabilities of death for large age groups (nqx), a relational technique is applied for the estimation of...
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Prospective Scenarios on Coverage of Deaths in Brazil

Paes, Neir Antunes; dos Santos Silva, Alisson

Pages: 83 –94

[Vital statistics reflect the health status of a population, which are widely used in the formulation of important demographic indicators. The evolution of vital records in Brazil is marked by political factors and administrative instabilities that have compromised its quality and utility. Due to...
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Applications of the Cumulative Rate to Kidney Cancer Statistics in Australia

Brennan, Janelle; Chan, K. C.; Kippen, Rebecca; Lenard, C. T.; Mills, T. M.; Williams, Ruth F. G.

Pages: 97 –106

[Cancer incidence and mortality statistics in two populations are usually compared by using either the age-standardised rate or the cumulative risk by a certain age. We argue that the cumulative rate is a superior measure because it obviates the need for a standard population, and is not open to...
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To Reliability of Mortality Shifts in Working Population in Russia

Ivanova, Alla; Sabgayda, Tamara; Semyonova, Viktoria; Zemlyanova, Elena

Pages: 107 –119

[The article presents the analysis of death causes structure of working population (15–59 years) in Russia determining its age-specific and gender regularities and defining their influence on death causes structure in working ages. The main results of 50-years of history of Russian mortality are...

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