Mortality decline and reproductive change during the Dutch demographic transition

Mortality Decline and the Demographic Response: Toward a New Agenda

Decline in US stroke mortality. Demographic trends and antihypertensive treatment.

Stroke mortality has been falling rapidly in this country since 1973. To investigate age-race-sex effects on stroke mortality, we studied US vital statistics during 1950-1972 and 1973-1981 in 55-64-, 65-74-, and 75-84-year-old race-sex groups. The accelerated rate of decline in stroke mortality since 1973 has had a substantial public health impact, with greater than 200,000 fewer stroke deaths ...

The health transition: the cultural inflation of morbidity during the decline of mortality.

It has become commonplace to observe that as mortality falls, morbidity levels rise. The question is why? The explanation offered here stresses the multidimensional nature of morbidity, and the important role that diverse cultural forces have on the patterns of behaviour which underlie reporting behaviour during modernization. These forces involve rising health expectations on the part of or...

Demographic and behavioural change during epidemics

The speed and range of epidemic spreading is strongly influenced by the topology and dynamics of the relevant transmission network. This is, however, not a uni-directional relationship. The mutual interaction between epidemic spreading and the evolution of the transmission network is described within a new mathematical framework by a closed set of partial differential equations. This allows to ...

On Demographic Transition, Structural Change, and Economic Growth and Stagnation

The paper analyzes an economy with an agrarian and an industrial sector. Demand is determined by Engel's Law. Population growth follows a non{linear income dependent path according to the theory of demographic transition. In case of decreasing returns to scale in the agrarian sector the existence of a stable low{income equilibrium with high population growth can be shown. If this equilibrium is...