Trends In State-Level Child Mortality, Maternal Mortality, And Fertility Rates In India

Maternal Mortality Trends in Mexico: State Differences

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, ...

Maternal mortality trends in Australia.

In Australia, a series of reports regardingmaternal deaths has been published over the past five decades; the first in the series covered the 1964e1966 triennium. These reports examine the deaths that occurred during pregnancy or within 42 days of the end of pregnancy. They are compilations of data sourced from multidisciplinary state maternal mortality review committees that undertake detailed...

Epidemiology and trends in mortality from liver cancer in Iran

Liver cancer is the sixth most common cancer worldwide and the third leading cause of death from cancer. Liver cancer is more prevalent in countries in East Asia, Southeast Asia and the western Central Africa.1 Liver cancer rates in North America and Western Europe, less than 10 cases per hundred thousand people in Asia and Africa between 50-150 cases per hundred thousand people.2 The inc...

Child mortality in rural India

This paper focuses on infant and child mortality in rural areas of India. We construct a flexible duration model, which allows for frailty at multiple levels and interactions between the child’s age and individual, socioeconomic, and environmental characteristics. The model is estimated using the Indian National Family and Health Survey 1998/1999. The estimation results show that socioeconomic ...