Title:	International Handbook of Adult Mortality
Authors:	Richard G. Rogers Eileen M. Crimmins
Keywords:	Adult Mortality
Issue Date:	2011
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	The study of mortality was once confined to demographers and epidemiologists examining age-, sex-, and sometimes race/ethnic-specific differences from vital registration systems. Now mortality analysis involves increasingly new and innovative data, models, and methods with researchers from multidisciplinary fields. Epidemiologists have clarified the importance of examining a wide range of behaviors to identify the health risks that lead to mortality. Psychologists and social psychologists have highlighted the influence of social networks and support, and psychological traits and attributes as buffers and risks for individual health. Economists have sharpened thinking about socioeconomic processes and health outcomes. The integration of medical and biological thinking has helped to reveal the pathways through which social, psychological, economic, and demographic variables work individually and in combination to affect mortality risk and also to point out the potential for intervention in this process. Changes in mortality affect individuals and social institutions, including the age and sex structure of the population, family composition and structure, and labor-force participation and composition. Understanding the causes and consequences of mortality trends is crucial because they affect such factors as determining appropriate public health intervention; future spending for health care; social welfare spending, including Social Security; and allocating resources to basic and applied research. This is an excellent time to synthesize the wealth of mortality information available, clearly articulate the central findings to-date, identify the most appropriate datasets and methods currently available, and illuminate the central research questions. Identifying these questions will indicate the appropriate research agenda through which we can contribute to further insight into mortality, which will ultimately result in additional increases in life expectancy.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/50723
ISBN:	978-90-481-9996-9
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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