Differential Mortality

PART I: Lado T. Ruzicka: INTRODUCTION: Problems and issues in the study of mortality differentials; PART II: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES: Josianne Duchene & Guillaume Wunsch: Conceptual frameworks and causal modelling; onald H. Gray: The integration of demographic and epidemiologic approaches to studies of health in developing countries; Shiro Horiuchi: Some methodological issues in the assessment of the deceleration of the mortality decline; Stan D'Souza: Measures of preventable deaths in developing countries: Some methodological issues and approaches; PART III: BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL FACTORS: Eduardo E. Arriaga: Changing trends in mortality decline during the last decades; Jose Miguel Guzman: Trends in socio-economic differentials in infant mortality in selected Latin American countries; Budi Utomo: Socio-economic differentials in infant and child mortality in Indonesia in the 1970s: Trends, causes, and implications; Nusret H. Fisek: Determinants of child mortality in Turkey; Alberto Palloni: Effects of inter-birth intervals on infant and early child mortality; George C. Myers: Mortality and health dynamics at older ages; PART IV: CRISIS MORTALITY: Andre Bouckaert: Crisis mortality: Extinction and near-extinction of human populations; Penny Kane: Famine in China 1959-61: Demographic and social implications.