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Mortality

Journal Article

Variations in the Quality of Care for Very-Low-Birthweight Infants: Implications for Policy

Decline in childhood mortality over the past two decades is attributable to improvements in neonatal intensive care for very-low-birthweight infants.

Dec 31, 2003
Journal Article

Child Maltreatment, Abortion Availability, and Economic Conditions

Child maltreatment is a substantial problem in the U.S. yet has received relatively little attention form economists.

Dec 31, 2003
Report

Cross-Validation Performance of Mortality Prediction Models

Cross-Validation Performance of Mortality Prediction Models

Dec 31, 2003
Report

Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality in Developing Countries: The Case of Child Survival in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Mother's education emerged as the key factor underlying socioeconomic inequalities in under-five mortality even as levels of education for women increased and inequality in schooling fell.

Dec 31, 2003
Report

Urbanization, Development, and Under-Five Mortality Differentials by Place of Residence in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1970-1991

This paper examines the differentials in under-five mortality for the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, between urban and rural areas and by location within urban areas over a 21-year period between 1970 and 1991.

Dec 31, 2003
Journal Article

Developing and Comparing Population Models for the Early Detection of Cancer

Various approaches to population modeling, focusing on the effects of cancer screening on both incidence and mortality.

Dec 31, 2003
Journal Article

Advance Care Planning for Fatal Chronic Illness: Avoiding Commonplace Errors and Unwarranted Suffering

The authors discuss serious, recurring, and generally unnoticed errors in planning for care near the end of life and possible steps toward improvement

Dec 31, 2002
Journal Article

Patterns of Functional Decline at the End of Life

Clinicians have observed various patterns of functional decline at the end of life, but few empirical data have tested these patterns.

Dec 31, 2002
Journal Article

The Link Between Public and Private Insurance and HIV-related Mortality

It is useful to ask whether insurance has any effect on health outcomes and whether public insurance is efficacious in preventing premature death.

Dec 31, 2002
Journal Article

Efficacy of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Beta-Blockers in the Management of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction According to Race, Gender and Diabetic Status: A Meta-Analysis of Major Clinical Trials

Women with asymptomatic LV systolic dysfunction may not achieve a mortality benefit when treated with ACE inhibitors.

Dec 31, 2002
Journal Article

Neighborhood Physical Conditions and Health

The authors explored the relationship between boarded-up housing and rates of gonorrhea and premature mortality.

Dec 31, 2002
Journal Article

Why Is Poverty Unhealthy? Social and Physical Mediators

Socioeconomic status is associated with mortality, yet does not fully explain health disparities.

Dec 31, 2002
Journal Article

Quality-of-care Indicators for Early-Stage Prostate Cancer

This study establishes a foundation on which to build quality-of-care assessment tools to evaluate the treatment of early-stage prostate cancer.

Dec 31, 2002
Journal Article

In Summary: Describing Death in America : What We Need to Know

Report brief recommends ways to fill the information gaps by better use of existing nationally-representative data, and through some new measures, in particular, a new, ongoing National Mortality Followback Survey.

Dec 31, 2002
Research Brief

Krizis smertnosti v rossii: alkogolism, zabolevacmost i ukhudshenie zdravookhraneiia: (Russia's Mortality Crisis: Drinking, Disease, and Deteriorating Health Care)

No abstract is available for this document.

Dec 31, 2001
Journal Article

Quality of Life of Patients with Chronic Stable Angina Before and Four Years After Coronary Revascularisation Compared with a Normal Population

3/5 of patients with chronic stable angina were free of angina and their HRQOL was the same as or better than that of the general Swedish population.

Dec 31, 2001
Journal Article

Contribution of Major Diseases to Disparities in Mortality

Mortality is higher for persons with fewer years of education and for blacks, but it is unknown which diseases contribute most to these disparities.

Dec 31, 2001
Report

Mortality and Sample Selection: Reply to Noymer

Mortality and Sample Selection: Reply to Noymer

Dec 31, 2001
Report

Forest Fires, Air Pollution, and Mortality in Southeast Asia

Forest Fires, Air Pollution, and Mortality in Southeast Asia

Dec 31, 2001
Journal Article

A Life Course Perspective on Childhood Cheerfulness and Its Relation to Mortality Risk

Follows up the inverse relation between childhood cheerfulness and longevity found among 1,215 men and women first assessed as children by Lewis Terman in 1922.

Dec 31, 2001

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RAND Topic:
Mortality

Topic Synonyms:
Death Rate

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