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Ethnic differences in integration levels and return migration intentions: A study of Estonian migrants in Finland
ethnicity integration return migration
2014/11/26
Background: Immigrants‘ desire to stay in the host country or return to the country of origin depends largely on the balance between their degree of integration in the host country and their level of ...
Self-Reported Versus Performance-Based Measures of Physical Function: Prognostic Value for Survival
disability mortality performance assessments physical function self report
2014/11/26
Background: Although previous studies have indicated that performance assessments strongly predict future survival, few have evaluated the incremental value in the presence of controls for self-report...
An application of MCMC simulation in mortality projection for populations with limited data
Bayesian MCMC modelling mortality projection WinBUGS
2014/11/26
Objective: IIn this paper, we investigate the use of Bayesian modeling and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation, via the software WinBUGS, to project future mortality for populations with limite...
Integrating uncertainty in time series population forecasts: An illustration using a simple projection model
Bayesian Bayesian approach England model averaging population forecasting Wales
2014/11/25
Background: Population forecasts are widely used for public policy purposes. Methods to quantify the uncertainty in forecasts tend to ignore model uncertainty and to be based on a single model.Objecti...
The age pattern of increases in mortality affected by HIV: Bayesian fit of the Heligman-Pollard Model to data from the Agincourt HDSS field site in rural northeast South Africa
AIDS/HIV Bayesian inference life expectancy South AfricaAIDS/HIV Bayesian inference life expectancy South Africa
2014/11/25
Background: We investigate the sex-age-specific changes in the mortality of a prospectively monitored rural population in South Africa. We quantify changes in the age pattern of mortality efficiently ...
Old age mortality in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia
Asia cause of death decomposition East Asia life expectancy old age mortality South-East Asia
2014/11/25
Background: Eastern and South-Eastern Asian countries have witnessed a marked decline in old age mortality in recent decades. Yet no studies have investigated the trends and patterns in old age mortal...
Cause-specific measures of life years lost
competing risks cumulative incidence life expectancy life years lost multiple decrement life-table
2014/11/25
Background: A new measure of the number of life years lost due to specific causes of death is introduced.Methods: This measure is based on the cumulative incidence of death, it does not require "indep...
Sex ratios at sexual maturity and longevity: Evidence from Swedish register data
longevity mortality sex ratios
2014/11/25
Background: This study tests the recently proposed hypothesis that the contextual sex ratio at sexual maturity is related to longevity. Previous empirical research in the United States has shown that ...
Sex ratios at sexual maturity and longevity: Evidence from Swedish register data
longevity mortality sex ratios
2014/11/25
Background: This study tests the recently proposed hypothesis that the contextual sex ratio at sexual maturity is related to longevity. Previous empirical research in the United States has shown that ...
Impact of different mortality forecasting methods and explicit assumptions on projected future life expectancy: The case of the Netherlands
Europe extrapolation Lee-Carter model Netherlands non-linear models smoking
2014/11/25
Background: With the rapid aging of the population, mortality forecasting becomes increasingly important, especially for the insurance and pension industries. However, a wide variety of projection met...
Mortality by marital status in a rapidly changing society: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Czech Republic differential mortality marital status mortality
2014/11/25
Background: Married people tend to live longer than their unmarried counterparts, and the advantage in life expectancy enjoyed by married people relative to other groups has been increasing over time....
The more you learn the less you know? Interpretive ambiguity across three modes of qualitative data
Africa AIDS/HIV ethnography focus groups HIV testing interviews Malawi qualitative methods research mindfulness
2014/11/24
Background: Researchers across disciplines face a similar challenge ensuring our methods can give us valid, usable answers to our questions. But what happens when multiple strategies of inquiry give u...
Working life gain from gain in old age life expectancy in India
elderly life expectancy old age dependency projections working life expectancy
2014/11/24
Background: It is important to evaluate the interaction between increasing life expectancy and changing age patterns in work participation from the perspective of planning for the greying population o...
Indigenous life expectancy in Sweden 1850-1899: Towards a long and healthy life?
colonization infant mortality life expectancy Sami
2014/11/24
Background: Previous research has shown that the health transition and demographical pattern of indigenous people has followed a different path compared to non-indigenous groups living in the same are...
Application of the modified PGW method for determining the smoking attributable fraction of deaths in New Zealand Maori, Pacific and non-Maori non-Pacific populations
cannabis smoking lung cancer Peto-Lopez method PGW method smoking-related mortality tobacco use
2014/11/24
Background: Preston, Glei and Wilmoth recently proposed a new method for estimating smoking-attributable mortality in high income countries and an improvement to the method was proposed by Rostron. Th...