Commentary: Mortality decline in Senegal

Commentary: Lithium in Drinking Water and Suicide Mortality

Decline in Cardiovascular Mortality

The first 60 years of the 20th century saw a remarkable transformation in health and longevity in the United States and other industrialized countries. In 1900, life expectancy in the United States was only 47.3 years (46.3 for men and 48.3 for women and only 33 for blacks). Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, and gastroenteritis were the leading causes of death and ...

Modeling malaria genomics reveals transmission decline and rebound in Senegal.

To study the effects of malaria-control interventions on parasite population genomics, we examined a set of 1,007 samples of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum collected in Thiès, Senegal between 2006 and 2013. The parasite samples were genotyped using a molecular barcode of 24 SNPs. About 35% of the samples grouped into subsets with identical barcodes, varying in size by year and somet...

securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...

Perceiving Mortality Decline

THE TOPIC of mortality risk perceptions has somehow failed to engage the interest of demographers. Perhaps this is because in demography, as in social science more generally, the passage from socioeconomic change to individual perceptions of change has been assumed to be immediate, or to involve lags of little consequence. If individual perceptions adjust quickly to changing empirical realities...