MORTALITY IN GOITRE OPERATIONS

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, ...

Goitre in Multan District

In the course of medical inspection of school children of Mulepur, a village in Kabirwala talisilit was noticed that a remarkably larg-e number of children suffered from simple goitre. Out of a total number of 70 boys examined, 32 were found to be suffering from goitre?a very high percentage. Further investigation showed that goitre exists not only amongst the students of the 1st and 5th classe...

Endemic goitre in Guinea.

Goitre in School Children

I HE incidence of simple an(i sporadic goitre has been studied in many parts of world, with the object of finding causes of the condition, and if possible preventi them from becoming serious in later life by early recognition and treatment. interest has beeni takeln in the subject from early' times. Dr. S. I. Turkin remarks in hiis historical survey of medicine, that when Johni Evelyn rode over...

Toxic Goitre

history of excessive perspiration three months previously, followed two weeks later by a "sweat rash." She became very fretful, refused her food, and did not sleep. There was marked photophobia. She was admitted to hospital, and kept on sedatives to procure sleep. She took her feeds better, but began to have a temperature; loose motions followed, and eventually she died of gastro-enteritis. In ...