State trends in infant mortality, 1968-83.

International trends in mortality from stroke, 1968 to 1994.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The World Health Organization data bank is an invaluable source of information for international comparison of mortality trends. We present rates and trends in mortality from stroke up to 1994, with a particular emphasis on the last 10-year period. Data are presented for men and women in 51 industrialized and developing countries from different parts of the world. METHO...

Long-term trends in childhood diabetes mortality: 1968-1998.

OBJECTIVE In the context of recent improvements in type 1 diabetes therapy, to describe longitudinal trends in mortality attributable to childhood diabetes and to investigate socioeconomic and health services correlates of mortality. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We extracted mortality data for 1968-1998 from National Center for Health Statistics files and covariates from the Bureau of Health P...

Demographic Influences on Economic Growth, 1968-83

This paper describes an econometric investigation of the effects of population growth on the growth of output. A structural model yields an equation expressing output growth as a function of both demographic and nondemographic variables. This equation is estimated from data on 142 six-year growth periods in 85 countries at all levels of per capita output. Higher fertility is found to lower outp...

Maternal Mortality Trends in Mexico: State Differences

Trends and racial differences in infant mortality in South Africa.

Racial differences in infant mortality in South Africa are studied using household-level data from 1987 to 1989 and 1998. Logistic regression models are estimated to explore the determinants of the overall trend in infant mortality and racial disparities in infants' survival chances. We do not find evidence for reduced overall risk of infant death among births that occurred from 1993 to 1998 wh...