Mortality - Trends
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Mortality among residents of shelters, rooming houses, and hotels in Canada: 11 year follow-up study.

24 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To examine mortality in a representative nationwide sample of homeless and marginally housed people living in shelters, rooming houses, and hotels. DESIGN: Follow-up study. SETTING: Canada 1991-2001. PARTICIPANTS: 15 100 homeless and ... Read more...

Ageing populations: the challenges ahead.

Oct 2009 If the pace of increase in life expectancy in developed countries over the past two centuries continues through the 21st century, most babies born since 2000 in France, Germany, Italy, the UK, the USA, Canada, Japan, and other countries with long ... Read more...

Ethnicity, age, and trends in alcohol-related driver fatalities in the United States.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the 8-year ethnic-specific declining trend in the proportion of alcohol-impaired driver deaths in the United States. METHODS: We used the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), which is a census of all fatal motor vehicle ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mortality - Trends'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Comparison of time trends in colorectal cancer mortality (1990-2006) in the world, from the WHO mortality database. 30 Oct 2009
• Mortality among residents of shelters, rooming houses, and hotels in Canada: 11 year follow-up study. 24 Oct 2009
• Women's cardiovascular health: prevention is key. 24 Oct 2009
• European health systems face scrutiny in US debate. 22 Oct 2009
• Ageing populations: the challenges ahead. Oct 2009
• Survival and mortality in older adults living at high altitude in Bolivia: a preliminary report. 29 Sep 2009
• Ethnicity, age, and trends in alcohol-related driver fatalities in the United States. 29 Sep 2009
• Commentary: How traffic crashes were reduced in China--experience and difficulties. 29 Sep 2009
• Climate change is not the biggest global health threat. 17 Sep 2009
• Global patterns of mortality in young people: a systematic analysis of population health data. 10 Sep 2009
• Young people: not as healthy as they seem. 10 Sep 2009
• Comparisons between geographies of mortality and deprivation from the 1900s and 2001: spatial analysis of census and mortality statistics. 8 Sep 2009
• Relationship between higher estradiol levels and 9-year mortality in older women: the Invecchiare in Chianti study. 6 Sep 2009
• Trends in unintentional injury deaths, U.S., 1999-2005: age, gender, and racial/ethnic differences. 30 Aug 2009
• The relationship between variations in antipsychotic prescribing across nursing homes and short-term mortality: quality of care implications. 30 Aug 2009
• The occurrence of unfavorable thermal conditions on human health in central europe and potential climate change impacts: an example from Cracow, Poland. 20 Aug 2009
• Age disparities in stroke quality of care and delivery of health services. 18 Aug 2009
• Trends in cardiovascular mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis over 50 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies. 18 Aug 2009
• Trends of cervical cancer mortality in the member states of the European Union. 16 Aug 2009
• Mortality risk associated with physical and verbal abuse in women aged 50 to 79. 11 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Mortality'

Definition: All deaths reported in a given population.

Descriptor UI: D009026

Alternative terms: Mortality; Mortalities; Decline, Mortality; Declines, Mortality; Mortality Declines; Mortality Decline; Mortality Determinants; Determinants, Mortality; Determinant, Mortality; Mortality Determinant; Mortality, Differential; Differential Mortality; Differential Mortalities; Mortalities, Differential; Case Fatality Rate; Case Fatality Rates; Rate, Case Fatality; Rates, Case Fatality; Mortality, Premature; Mortalities, Premature; Premature Mortalities; Premature Mortality; Age-Specific Death Rate; Age-Specific Death Rates; Death Rate, Age-Specific; Death Rates, Age-Specific; Rate, Age-Specific Death; Rates, Age-Specific Death; Age Specific Death Rate; Death Rate; Death Rates; Rate, Death; Rates, Death; Mortality, Excess; Excess Mortality; Excess Mortalities; Mortalities, Excess;

Related Mesh Headings: Fatal Outcome;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; history; trends;

Tree Number: E05.318.308.985.550; L01.280.975.550; N01.224.935.698; N06.850.505.400.975.550; N06.850.520.308.985.550;

History Note: 1963; for MORTALITY, PREMATURE use INFANT MORTALITY 1995-2004

Technical Notes: a statistical concept, not for individual deaths in case reports ( = FATAL OUTCOME); do not confuse with DEATH, the physiol dying or death; IM GEN only; prefer /mortal with diseases: Manual 19.7+, 19.8.47; specify geog; for human & animal; DF: MORTAL