Sökning: "age-specific mortality"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 24 avhandlingar innehållade orden age-specific mortality.
11. Suicide mortality in the South African context : exploring the role of social status and environmental circumstances
Sammanfattning : Suicide is a serious public health problem worldwide, but is differentially distributed across social groups and regions. The goal of this thesis, focusing on the post-apartheid transitional setting of South Africa, is to advance knowledge of the relationship between individual social status (race and sex), contextual factors and suicide mortality. LÄS MER
12. 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
13. Suicide in Russia : A macro-sociological study
Sammanfattning : This work constitutes a macro-sociological study of suicide. The empirical focus is on suicide mortality in Russia, which is among the highest in the world and has, moreover, developed in a dramatic manner over the second half of the 20th century. LÄS MER
14. 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
15. Care and Coercion : medical knowledge, social policy and patients with venereal disease in Sweden 1785-1903
Sammanfattning : This study investigates the history of venereal diseases in Sweden in the period from 1785 to 1903. Medical and political perceptions of these diseases as well as the patients and their continued lives have been studied. Venereal diseases were considered a significant threat to the growth of the population throughout the period. LÄS MER