Sökning: "Age-specific effects"
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1. The effects of deleterious mutations on ageing
Sammanfattning : Ageing is defined as the deterioration of an individual's physiological performance with advancing age, which leads to a decrease in reproduction and/or survival. The question why most organisms age has preoccupied humans for millennia and, over the last decades, resulted in an ever-increasing research effort to understand this phenomenon. LÄS MER
2. Essays on Social Interactions and the Long-term Effects of Early-Life Conditions
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays. Essay 1: From the late 1970s through mid 1990s blood-lead levels decreased drastically in Swedish children due to the sharp phase-out of leaded gasoline. LÄS MER
3. Evolving geriatric anthropometrics- an interplay with lifestyle changes, birth cohort effects, and survival implications. : Results from the general population study, “Good Aging in Skåne,” Sweden
Sammanfattning : There is a rising proportion of aging population worldwide. The high vulnerability of older adults to morbidity and mortality introduces an enormous health and economic burden to themselves and the society. The established leading cause of death among older adults is due to chronic and vascular diseases. LÄS MER
4. Studies in health economics : modelling and data analysis of costs and survival
Sammanfattning : This dissertation consists of six essays in health economics.The first essay, “Economic evaluations in health care: Basic principles and special topics”, serves as an introduction to economic evaluations in health care, including estimations of costs, health effects, and the discount rate. LÄS MER
5. Population dynamics of a perennial herb (Plantago maritima L.) along a distributional gradient : a demographical study
Sammanfattning : In order to explain density distribution and provide the basis for further research on life history phenomena, the demography of Plantago maritima is described along a distributional gradient from mean water level to the epilitoral. The results seem to suggest that the factors affecting distribution are differences in 1. LÄS MER