Childhood cancer mortality in Australia

Years of Life Lost and Childhood and Adolescent Cancer Mortality in Yazd Province, Iran (2004-2009)

BackgroundThe Years of Life Lost (YLL) due to cancer can be a more illustrative index. to promote preventive and therapeutic services, this study aimed to investigate the childhood cancer mortality and its trend over the past few years in Yazd to provide planners with baseline data. Material and Method Data obtained from death registration system of the healthcare center were used to calculate ...

Pattern of childhood cancer mortality in Mexico.

Public and governmental concern regarding increasing cancer mortality trends in children in Mexico led us to investigate the current situation of childhood cancer in this country, as well as to discuss the reasons for which no decline in total and childhood cancer mortality has been documented during the past decades. The data used for analysis of total cancer mortality and study of the trends ...

Childhood cancer incidence and mortality in Canada

Smoking-attributable cancer mortality in NSW, Australia, 1972-2008.

AIM To estimate the impact of smoking-attributable cancer mortality on trends in cancer mortality in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, between 1972 and 2008. STUDY TYPE The study is a retrospective analysis of cancer mortality in NSW using NSW Central Cancer Registry data. METHODS Smoking-attributable cancer deaths were estimated using the smoking impact ratio method, which provides an indi...

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, ...