Relative Income Deprivation and All-Cause Mortality in Japan: Do Life Priorities Matter?

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

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, ...

Associations of All-Cause Mortality with Census-Based Neighbourhood Deprivation and Population Density in Japan: A Multilevel Survival Analysis

BACKGROUND Despite evidence that neighbourhood conditions affect residents' health, no prospective studies of the association between neighbourhood socio-demographic factors and all-cause mortality have been conducted in non-Western societies. Thus, we examined the effects of areal deprivation and population density on all-cause mortality in Japan. METHODS We employed census and survival data...

Relative income, race, and mortality.

This paper examines the relationship between relative income and mortality. Our research is motivated by recent literature that posits that, holding individual income fixed, those whose income are low relative to the incomes of those in a reference group will have worse health. We develop an empirical model in which an individual's health is a function of his or her own income and the incomes o...

Soy intake, all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Japan: the Jichi Medical School Cohort Study

Background: Soy is a popular ingredient in the Japanese diet. However, few studies have investigated the association between soy intake and mortality. This study aimed to determine whether soy intake was associated with all-cause mortality in a community-based cohort in Japan. Methods: Data were obtained from an annual community-based health examination program, with participants followed each ...