OBJECTIVE Geographic patterns in total mortality and in mortality by cause of death are widely known to exist in many countries. However, the geographic pattern of inequalities in mortality within these countries is unknown. This study shows mathematically and graphically the geographic pattern of mortality inequalities by education in Spain. METHODS Data are from a nation-wide prospective st...

BACKGROUND A decrease in mortality across all ages causes a shift of the age pattern of mortality, or mortality delay, while differences in the rate of decrease across ages cause a change in the shape of the age-at-death distribution, mortality compression or expansion. Evidence exists for both compression and delay of mortality. Existing parametric models to describe the full age pattern of mo...

CONTEXT Evidence of an association between dietary patterns and individual foods and the risk of overall mortality among cancer survivors has not been reviewed systematically. OBJECTIVE The aim of this meta-analysis of cohort studies was to investigate the association between food intake and dietary patterns and overall mortality among cancer survivors. DATA SOURCES The PubMed and Embase da...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE At age 45 years, blacks have a stroke mortality ≈3× greater than their white counterparts, with a declining disparity at older ages. We assess whether this black-white disparity in stroke mortality is attributable to a black-white disparity in stroke incidence versus a disparity in case fatality. METHODS We first assess if black-white differences in stroke mortality wit...

In a paper published in the previous issue of Population Studies , Zhongwei Zhao questions the uniqueness of a mortality pattern first identified by Goldman (1980) and subsequently redefined by the United Nations (1982). As originally formulated by Goldman, the Far Eastern pattern is characterized by ‘excessively high’ death rates among older men relative to death rates among both younger men a...

the government of the united republic of tanzania has initiated the integrated management of childhood illness program to improve the health and wellbeing of children.tanzania's under-five mortality rate is still 1.7 times higher than the world average and, in order to achieve its millennium development goal 4 target, its annual reduction rate is quite low at 2.2. the main aim of the study is t...

Background—Prior studies of coronary pattern and outcome after arterial switch operation (ASO) for transposition of the great arteries (TGA) have been hindered by limited statistical power. This meta-analysis assesses the effect of coronary anatomy on post-ASO mortality, both overall and adjusted for time. Methods and Results—A literature search revealed 9 independent series that reported post-...

OBJECTIVE A meta-analysis showed an inverse association of a prudent/healthy dietary pattern with all-cause mortality and no association of a western/unhealthy dietary pattern. However, the association of distinctive dietary patterns of Japanese population with mortality remains unclear. We prospectively investigated the association between dietary patterns and all-cause, cancer, and cardiovasc...

OBJECTIVE To examine geographical variation of mortality in Thailand. MATERIAL AND METHOD Descriptive ecological study using the national vital registration data in 2000, age-specific mortality rate and cause-specific standardized mortality ratio (SMR) were presented at district geographic level. RESULTS Overall mortality was highly concentrated in the middle part of the upper north, as wel...

spatial pattern of trees is an important characteristic of plant communities. generating hypotheses relating to the structure of ecological communities is the aim of spatial pattern recognition. stands spatial patterns are measured and mapped by measuring tree locations in the stand and entering each coordinates into analytical frameworks. the spatial pattern of plant populations observed at an...