“Social isolation, loneliness, and all-cause mortality in older men and women,” by Andrew Steptoe, Aparna Shankar, Panayotes Demakakos, and Jane Wardle (Vol. 110, No. 15, April 9, 2013, .pdf and HTML format, p. 5797-5801). Note: PNAS is providing open access to the full-text of this article.
April 9, 2013
March 27, 2013
CAAR – US National Center for Health Statistics Data Brief – March 27, 2013
“Mortality From Alzheimer’s Disease in the United States: Data for 2000 and 2010,” by Betzaida Tejada-Vera (Data Brief No. 116, March 2013, .pdf and HTML format, 8p.).
March 5, 2013
CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Articles – March 5, 2013
A. “Familial Longevity Is Marked by Better Cognitive Performance at Middle Age: The Leiden Longevity Study,” by Marjon Stijntjes, Anton J. M. de Craen, Diana van Heemst, Carel G. M. Meskers, Mark A. van Buchem, Rudi G. J. Westendorp, P. Eline Slagboom, and Andrea B. Maier (PLoS ONE 8(3): e57962. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057962, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 8p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0057962
B. “Predictive Value of a Profile of Routine Blood Measurements on Mortality in Older Persons in the General Population: The Leiden 85-Plus Study,” by Anne H. van Houwelingen, Wendy P.J. den Elzen, Simon P. Mooijaart, Margot Heijmans, Jeanet W. Blom, Anton J. M. de Craen, and Jacobijn Gussekloo (PLoS ONE 8(3): e58050. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058050, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 8p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0058050
C. “Chronic Administration of Anti-Stroke Herbal Medicine TongLuoJiuNao Reduces Amyloidogenic Processing of Amyloid Precursor Protein in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease,” by Ping He, Pengtao Li, Qian Hua, Yuan Liu, Matthias Staufenbiel, Rena Li, and Yong Shen (PLoS ONE 8(3): e58181. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058181, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 9p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0058181
D. “End-of-Life Decisions: A Cross-National Study of Treatment Preference Discussions and Surrogate Decision-Maker Appointments,” by Natalie Evans, H. Roeline Pasman, Tomas Vega Alonso, Lieve Van den Block, Guido Miccinesi, Viviane Van Casteren, Ge Donker, Stefano Bertolissi, Oscar Zurriaga, Luc Deliens, and Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, on behalf of EUROIMPACT (PLoS ONE 8(3): e57965. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057965, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 12p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0057965
E. “A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study of Home-Based Step Training in Older People Using Videogame Technology,” by Daniel Schoene, Stephen R. Lord, Kim Delbaere, Connie Severino, Thomas A. Davies, and Stuart T. Smith (PLoS ONE 8(3): e57734. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057734, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 8p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0057734
February 22, 2013
CAAR – UK Office for National Statistics Statistical Bulletins – February 22, 2013
A. “Trends in Mortality by NS-SEC at Older Ages in England and Wales, 1982-86 to 2002-06,” (February 2013, .pdf and HTML format, 26p.).
B. “2012 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings: Summary of Pension Results,” (February 2013, .pdf and HTML format, 20p.).
February 12, 2013
CAAR – Pensions Institute (Cass Business School, City University of London) [UK] Working Paper – February 12, 2013
“A General Procedure for Constructing Mortality Models,” by Andrew Hunt and David Blake (PI-1301, February 2013, .pdf format, 50p.).
Abstract:
Recently, a large number of new mortality models have been proposed to analyse historic mortality rates and project them into the future. Many of these suffer from being over-parametrised or have terms added in an ad hoc manner which cannot be justified in terms of demographic significance. In addition, poor specification of a model can lead to period effects in the data being wrongly attributed to cohort effects which results in the model making implausible projections. We present a general procedure for constructing mortality models using a combination of a toolkit of functions and expert judgement. By following the general procedure, it is possible to identify sequentially every significant demographic feature in the data and give it a parametric structural form. We demonstrate using UK mortality data that the general procedure produces a relatively parsimonious model that nevertheless has a good fit to the data.
January 28, 2013
CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Article – January 28, 2013
“Mortality and Medical Care after Bereavement: A General Practice Cohort Study,” by Michael King, Mira Vasanthan, Irene Petersen, Louise Jones, Louise Marston, and Irwin Nazareth (PLoS ONE 8(1): e52561. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052561, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 7p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0052561
January 16, 2013
CAAR – Wisconsin Department of Health Services Report – January 16, 2013
“Wisconsin Deaths, 2011″ (January 2013, .pdf format, 90p.).
January 10, 2013
CAAR – Human Mortality Database – January 10, 2013
- Data for Canada were revised and updated through 2009. (Jan. 9, 2013).
www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/DataAvailability.php
- Data access.
January 8, 2013
CAAR – Human Mortality Database – January 8, 2013
- Data for Denmark were revised and updated through 2011 (Jan. 7, 2013).
www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/DataAvailability.php
Data access:
January 7, 2013
CAAR – Human Mortality Database – January 7, 2013
- Data for USA were revised and updated through 2010 (Jan. 4, 2013).
- Data for Switzerland were revised and updated through 2011 (Jan. 4, 2013).
www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/DataAvailability.php
Data access:
January 4, 2013
CAAR – Pensions Institute (Cass Business School, City University of London) [UK] Working Paper – January 4, 2013
“Cypriot Mortality and Pension Benefits,” by Andreas Milidonis (Discussion Paper PI-1209, December 2012, .pdf format, 12p.).
Abstract:
Mortality trends in Cyprus show a similar decreasing trend over the past thirty years to other developed countries. Using detailed, age specific data from 2003 and 2009, we estimate the impact of the change in Cypriot male and female mortality on a stylized life annuity framework for a Cypriot retiree. Based on these results and the general pension framework in Cyprus, we propose a few measures that can alleviate the burden of decreased mortality on pension obligations.
December 18, 2012
CAAR – UK Office for National Statistics Report – December 18, 2012
“Mortality in England and Wales: Average Life Span,” (December 2012, .pdf and HTML format, 14p.).
December 17, 2012
CAAR – Lancet Article Abstracts – December 17, 2012
Lancet requires free registration prior to providing access.
A. “Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010,” by Haidong Wang, Laura Dwyer-Lindgren, Katherine T. Lofgren, Julie Knoll Rajaratnam, Jacob R. Marcus, Alison Levin-Rector, Carly E. Levitz, Alan D. Lopez, and Christopher J.L. Murray (Vol. 380, No. 9859, December 15, 2012, p. 2071-2094).
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2961728-0/abstract
B. “Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010,” by Rafael Lozano, Mohsen Naghavi, Kyle Foreman, et al. (Vol. 380, No. 9859, December 15, 2012, p. 2095-2128).
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2961728-0/abstract
C. “Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010,” by Joshua A. Salomon, Theo Vos, Daniel R. Hogan, Michael Gagnon, Mohsen Naghavi, Ali Mokdad, Nazma Begum, Razibuzzaman Shah, et al. (Vol. 380, No. 9859, December 15, 2012, p. 2129-2143).
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2961680-8/abstract
D. “Healthy life expectancy for 187 countries, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden Disease Study 2010,” by Joshua A. Salomon, Haidong Wang, Michael K. Freeman, Theo Vos, Abraham D. Flaxman, Alan D. Lopez, and Christopher J.L. Murray (Vol. 380, No. 9859, December 15, 2012, p. 2144-2162).
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2961690-0/abstract
E. “Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010,” by Theo Vos, Abraham D. Flaxman, Mohsen Naghavi, Rafael Lozano, Catherine Michaud, Majid Ezzati, Kenji Shibuya, Joshua A. Salomon, Safa Abdalla, et al. (Vol. 380, No. 9859, December 15, 2012, p. 2163-2196).
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2961729-2/abstract
F. “Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010,” by Christopher J. L. Murray, Theo Vos, Rafael Lozano, Mohsen Naghavi, Abraham D. Flaxman, Catherine Michaud, Majid Ezzati, Kenji Shibuya, Joshua A. Salomon, et al. (Vol. 380, No. 9859, December 15, 2012, p. 2197-2223).
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2961689-4/abstract
G. “A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010,” by Stephen S. Lim, Theo Vos, Abraham D. Flaxman, Goodarz Danaei, Kenji Shibuya, Heather Adair-Rohani, Markus Amann, H. Ross Anderson, Kathryn G. Andrews, et al. (Vol. 380, No. 9859, December 15, 2012, p. 2224-2260).
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2961766-8/abstract
December 7, 2012
November 28, 2012
CAAR – Human Mortality Database – November 28, 2012
- Data for Czech Republic were revised and updated through 2011 (Nov. 28, 2012).
www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/DataAvailability.php
Data access:
November 26, 2012
CAAR – World Health Organization Mortality Database Update – November 26, 2012
WHO updated the following files (.zip compressed ASCII format, with documentation in .pdf or Microsoft Excel format) it’s Mortality Database on Nov. 26, 2012. “Documentation“; “Availability“; “Populations and live birth“; and “Mortality, ICD-10.”
November 5, 2012
CAAR – Human Mortality Database – November 5, 2012
- Data for Total Germany, East Germany, and West Germany were revised and updated through 2010. (Nov. 2, 2012).
www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/DataAvailability.php
- Data access.
October 11, 2012
CAAR – Human Mortality Database – October 11, 2012
- Data for Latvia were revised and updated through 2010. (Oct. 9, 2012).
www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/DataAvailability.php
- Data access.
October 5, 2012
CAAR – Human Mortality Database – October 5, 2012
- Data for France (Total & Civilian) were revised and updated through 2010. (Oct. 5, 2012).
www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/DataAvailability.php
- Data access.
September 20, 2012
CAAR – Human Mortality Database – September 20, 2012
- Data for Sweden were revised and updated through 2011. (Sept. 19, 2012).
www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/DataAvailability.php
- Data access.
CAAR – Morbidity and Mortality Weely Report Article – September 20, 2012
“QuickStats: Death Rate From Complications of Medical and Surgical Care Among Adults Aged greater than or equal to 45 Years, by Age Group–United States, 1999-2009″ (US Centers for Disease Control, Vol. 61, No. 37, Sep. 21, 2012, HTML and .pdf format, p. 750).
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6137a6.htm?s_cid=mm6137a6_w
September 13, 2012
CAAR – New England Journal of Medicine Article Abstract – September 13, 2012
“Mortality and Access to Care among Adults after State Medicaid Expansions,” by Benjamin D. Sommers, Katherine Baicker, and Arnold M. Epstein (Vol. 367, No. 11, September 13, 2012, p. 1025-1034).
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1202099?query=TOC#t=abstract
September 10, 2012
CAAR – Human Mortality Database – September 10, 2012
Note: HMD requires free registration before providing data. The following updates have been added to the database:
- Data for Bulgaria were revised and updated through 2010. (Sept. 5, 2012).
www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/DataAvailability.php
- Data access.
August 22, 2012
CAAR – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Report – August 22, 2012
“Multiple causes of death in Australia: an analysis of all natural and selected chronic disease causes of death 1997-2007,” (August 2012, .pdf and Rich-text format, 25p.).
August 9, 2012
CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Article – August 9, 2012
“Dementia Increases the Risks of Acute Organ Dysfunction, Severe Sepsis and Mortality in Hospitalized Older Patients: A National Population-Based Study,” by Hsiu-Nien Shen, Chin-Li Lu, and Chung-Yi Li (PLoS ONE 7(8): e42751. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042751, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 6p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0042751
August 6, 2012
CAAR – Human Mortality Database – August 6, 2012
Note: HMD requires free registration before providing data. The following updates have been added to the database:
- Data for Estonia were revised and updated through 2010 (Aug. 3, 2012).
www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/DataAvailability.php
- Data access.
July 25, 2012
CAAR – Statistics Canada/Statistique Canada Report – July 25, 2012
“Deaths, 2009,” (July 2012, .pdf and HTML format, 70p.).
July 23, 2012
CAAR – Human Mortality Database – July 23, 2012
Note: HMD requires free registration before providing data. The following updates have been added to the database:
- Data for USA were revised and updated through 2009 (Jul. 20, 2012).
www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/DataAvailability.php
- Data access.
July 17, 2012
CAAR – Australian Institute for Health and Welfare Report – July 17, 2012
“An enhanced mortality database for estimating Indigenous life expectancy: a feasibility study,” (July 2012, .pdf and Rich-text format, 60p.).
July 16, 2012
CAAR – National Bureau of Economics Research Working Papers – July 16, 2012
A. “Matching Contributions and Savings Outcomes: A Behavioral Economics Perspective,” by Brigitte C. Madrian (w18220, July 2012, .pdf format, 30p.).
Abstract:
Including a matching contribution increases savings plan participation and contributions, although the impact is less significant than the impact of nonfinancial approaches. Conditional on participation, a higher match rate has only a small effect on savings plan contributions. In contrast, the match threshold has a substantial impact, probably because it serves as a natural reference point when individuals are deciding how much to save and may be viewed as advice from the savings program sponsor on how much to save. Other behavioral approaches to changing savings plan outcomes–including automatic enrollment, simplification, planning aids, reminders, and commitment features–potentially have a much greater impact on savings outcomes than do financial incentives, often at a much lower cost.
B. “Health and Work At Older Ages: Using Mortality To Assess Employment Capacity Across Countries,” by Kevin S. Milligan, David A. Wise (w18229, July 2012, .pdf format, 40p.).
Abstract:
While longevity increased substantially over the last 50 years and health at older ages has improved, labor force participation at older ages has declined. We use mortality rates as a marker for the “health capacity” to work at older ages in 12 OECD countries. Mortality rates can be compared across countries and over time within the same country. For a given level of mortality, we find employment rates of older men vary substantially through time and across countries. At each mortality rate in 2007, if men in France worked as much as men in the United States, they would work 4.6 years more over ages 55 to 69 than they actually did. Comparing the work and mortality of American men in 2007 to the base year of 1977, the same calculation yields 3.7 years more work. These findings suggest a large increase in the health capacity to work, as measured by mortality. The relationship between cross-country mortality and changes in work over time at older ages is weak, suggesting the take-up of this extra capacity to work has varied. However, the dispersion in employment given mortality is strongly influenced by the retirement incentives inherent in public pension programs.
July 9, 2012
July 6, 2012
CAAR – Lancet Article Abstract – July 6, 2012
Lancet requires free registration prior to providing content. “Dementia incidence and mortality in middle-income countries, and associations with indicators of cognitive reserve: a 10/66 Dementia Research Group population-based cohort study,” by Prof. Martin Prince, Daisy Acosta, Cleusa P. Ferri, Mariella Guerra, Prof. Yueqin Huang, Prof. Juan J.. Llibre Rodriguez, Aquiles Salas, Ana Luisa Sosa, Joseph D. Williams, Prof. Michael E Dewey, Isaac Acosta, Amuthavalli T. Jotheeswaran, and Zhaorui Liu (Vol. 380, No. 9836, July 7, 2012, p. 50-58).
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60399-7/abstract
July 2, 2012
CAAR – Table of Contents – July 2, 2012
Journal of Applied Gerontology (Vol. 31, No. 4, August 2012).
jag.sagepub.com/content/vol31/issue4/?etoc
Public Health (Vol. 126, No. 6, June, 2012)
June 26, 2012
CAAR – Demographic Research Article – June 26, 2012
“Old age, health and social inequality: Exploring the social patterns of mortality in 19th century northern Sweden,” by Soren Edvinsson and Goran Brostrom (Vol. 26, Article 23, June 2012, .pdf format, p. 633-660).
June 14, 2012
CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Articles – June 14, 2012
A. “Association of Sedentary Time with Mortality Independent of Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity,” by Annemarie Koster, Paolo Caserotti, Kushang V. Patel, Charles E. Matthews, David Berrigan, Dane R. Van Domelen, Robert J. Brychta, Kong Y. Chen, and Tamara B. Harris (PLoS ONE 7(6): e37696. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037696, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 7p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0037696
B. “Quantifying Age-Related Differences in Information Processing Behaviors When Viewing Prescription Drug Labels,” by Raghav Prashant Sundar, Mark W. Becker, Nora M. Bello, and Laura Bix (PLoS ONE 7(6): e38819. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038819, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 8p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0038819
C. “Smoking, Habitual Tea Drinking and Metabolic Syndrome in Elderly Men Living in Rural Community: The Tianliao Old People (TOP) Study 02,” by Chin-Sung Chang, Yin-Fan Chang, Ping-Yen Liu, Chuan-Yu Chen, Yau-Sheng Tsai, and Chih-Hsing Wu (PLoS ONE 7(6): e38874. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038874, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 8p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0038874
June 13, 2012
CAAR – Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Working Paper – June 13, 2012
“Mortality shocks and the human rate of aging,” by Virginia Zarulli (WP-2012-019, June 2012, .pdf format, 25p.). Note: Links to the abstract and full-text can be found at:
June 6, 2012
CAAR – US National Center for Health Statistics Report – June 6, 2012
“Deaths: Leading Causes for 2008,” by Melonie Heron (National Vital Statistcis Reports, Vol. 60, No. 6, June 2012, .pdf format, 93p.).
May 30, 2012
CAAR – Demographic Research Article – May 30, 2012
Demographic Research Article: “Changes in educational differentials in old-age mortality in Finland and Sweden between 1971-1975 and 1996-2000,” by Virginia Zarulli, Domantas Jasilionis, and Dmitri A. Jdanov (Vol. 26, Article 19, May 2012, .pdf format, p. 489-510).
CAAR – Pensions Institute (Cass Business School, City University of London) [UK] Working Paper – May 30, 2012
“Modelling the Cohort Effect in CBD Models Using a Piecewise Linear Approach,” by Y. Zhao and P.J. Sweeting (Discussion Paper PI-1205, May 2012, .pdf format, 29p.).
Abstract:
This paper discusses a new pattern of mortality model which is built on the form and knowledge of the two-factor mortality model named after its designers Cairns, Blake and Dowd (2006). This model – the CBD model – is widely used and has been extended by the authors in a number of ways, including by the use of a cohort effect. In this paper, we propose a range of new parsimonious approaches to model the cohort effect. Instead of adding a cohort factor to an age-period model we model the effect by building discontinuities into the pattern of rates within each year. The fit of the resulting models is close to that available from the best of the CBD derivatives.
May 17, 2012
CAAR – New England Journal of Medicine Article Abstract – May 17, 2012
“Association of Coffee Drinking with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality,” by Neal D. Freedman, Yikyung Park, Christian C. Abnet, Albert R. Hollenbeck, and Rashmi Sinha (Vol. 366, No. 20, May 17, 2012, p. 1891-1904).
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1112010?query=TOC#t=abstract
April 19, 2012
CAAR – Eurostat News Release – April 19, 2012
“At the age of 65, both women and men are expected to live a further 9 years in a healthy condition,” (April 2012, .pdf format, 2p.).
epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/3-19042012-AP/EN/3-19042012-AP-EN.PDF
April 16, 2012
CAAR – Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) [University of Bonn, Germany] Working Paper – April 16, 2012
“Education, Health and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment,” by Costas Meghir, Marten Palme, and Emilia Simeonova (Discussion Paper No. 6462, April 2012, .pdf format, 55p.). Note: Links to the abstract and full-text can be found at:
www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=6462
April 13, 2012
CAAR – British Medical Journal Article – April 13, 2012
“Association between low functional health literacy and mortality in older adults: longitudinal cohort study,” by Sophie Bostock and Andrew Steptoe (BMJ 2012;344:e1602, .pdf and HTML format).
April 10, 2012
CAAR – Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Issue Brief – April 10, 2012
“Why Do More People Die During Economic Expansions?” by Ann Huff Stevens, Douglas L. Miller, Marianne Page, and Mateusz Filipski (IB No. 12-8, April 2012, .pdf format, 7p.).
crr.bc.edu/briefs/why-do-more-people-die-during-economic-expansions/
April 5, 2012
CAAR – National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper – April 5, 2012
“Geographic and Racial Variation in Premature Mortality in the US: Analyzing the Disparities,” by Mark R. Cullen, Clint Cummins, and Victor R. Fuchs (w17901, March 2012, .pdf format, 38p.).
Abstract:
Life expectancy at birth, estimated from United States period life tables, has been shown to vary systematically and widely by region and race. We use the same tables to estimate the probability of survival from birth to age 70 (S70), a measure of mortality more sensitive to disparities and more reliably calculated for small populations, to describe the variation and identify its sources in greater detail to assess the patterns of this variation. Examination of the unadjusted probability of S70 for each US county with a sufficient population of whites and blacks reveals large geographic differences for each race-sex group. For example, white males born in the ten percent healthiest counties have a 77 percent probability of survival to age 70, but only a 61 percent chance if born in the ten percent least healthy counties. Similar geographical disparities face white women and blacks of each sex. Moreover, within each county, large differences in S70 prevail between blacks and whites, on average 17 percentage points for men and 12 percentage points for women. In linear regressions for each race-sex group, nearly all of the geographic variation is accounted for by a common set of 22 socio-economic and environmental variables, selected for previously suspected impact on mortality; R2 ranges from 0.86 for white males to 0.72 for black females. Analysis of black-white survival chances within each county reveals that the same variables account for most of the race gap in S70 as well. When actual white male values for each explanatory variable are substituted for black in the black male prediction equation to assess the role explanatory variables play in the black-white survival difference, residual black-white differences at the county level shrink markedly to a mean of -2.4% (+/-2.4); for women the mean difference is -3.7 % (+/-2.3).
March 28, 2012
CAAR – Demographic Research Article – March 28, 2012
“The mystery of Japan’s missing centenarians explained,” by Yasuhiko Saito, Vanessa Yong, and Jean-Marie Robine (Vol. 26, No. 10, March 2012, .pdf format, p. 239-252).
March 26, 2012
CAAR – UK Office for National Statistics Report – March 26, 2012
“What are the Chances of Surviving to Age 100?” (March 2012, .pdf format, 10p.).
March 22, 2012
CAAR – Human Mortality Database – March 22, 2012
Note: HMD requires free registration before providing data. The following updates have been added to the database:
- Data for Taiwan were revised and updated through 2010 (Mar. 21, 2012).
www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/DataAvailability.php
Data access:
March 19, 2012
CAAR – Human Mortality Database – March 19, 2012
Note: HMD requires free registration before providing data. The following updates have been added to the database:
- Data for Australia were revised and updated through 2009 (Mar. 19, 2012).
www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/DataAvailability.php
Data access:
March 6, 2012
CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine Articles – March 6, 2012
A. “Socioeconomic Factors and All Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality among Older People in Latin America, India, and China: A Population-Based Cohort Study,” by Cleusa P. Ferri, Daisy Acosta, Mariella Guerra, Yueqin Huang, Juan J. Llibre-Rodriguez, Aquiles Salas, Ana Luisa Sosa, Joseph D. Williams, Ciro Gaona, Zhaorui Liu, Lisseth Noriega-Fernandez, A. T. Jotheeswaran, and Martin J. Prince (PLoS Med 9(2): e1001179. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001179, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 14p.).
www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001179
B. “Complexity in Non-Pharmacological Caregiving Activities at the End of Life: An International Qualitative Study,” by Olav Lindqvist, Carol Tishelman, Carina Lundh Hagelin, Jean B. Clark, Maria L. Daud, Andrew Dickman, Franzisca Domeisen Benedetti, Maren Galushko, Urska Lunder, Gunilla Lundquist, Guido Miccinesi, Sylvia B. Sauter, Carl Johan Furst, and Birgit H. Rasmussen (PLoS Med 9(2): e1001173. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001173, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 10p.).
www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001173