Differential Mortality: Methodological Issues and Biosocial Factors.

PART I: Lado T. Ruzicka: INTRODUCTION: Problems and issues in the study of mortality differentials PART II: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES: Josianne Duchene & Guillaume Wunsch: Conceptual frameworks and causal modelling onald H. Gray: The integration of demographic and epidemiologic approaches to studies of health in developing countries Shiro Horiuchi: Some methodological issues in the assessment of the deceleration of the mortality decline Stan D'Souza: Measures of preventable deaths in developing countries: Some methodological issues and approaches PART III: BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL FACTORS: Eduardo E. Arriaga: Changing trends in mortality decline during the last decades Jose Miguel Guzman: Trends in socio-economic differentials in infant mortality in selected Latin American countries Budi Utomo: Socio-economic differentials in infant and child mortality in Indonesia in the 1970s: Trends, causes, and implications Nusret H. Fisek: Determinants of child mortality in Turkey Alberto Palloni: Effects of inter-birth intervals on infant and early child mortality George C. Myers: Mortality and health dynamics at older ages PART IV: CRISIS MORTALITY: Andre Bouckaert: Crisis mortality: Extinction and near-extinction of human populations Penny Kane: Famine in China 1959-61: Demographic and social implications.