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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon across populations. In Western countries of the Northern hemisphere, mortality is typically larger in winter than in summer which is attributed to the detrimental effects of cold to health. This does, however, not explain why in colder countries the differences between winter and summer mortality are smaller than in countries with warm or moderate climate. This book, therefore, investigates whether sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors play a role as important for seasonal mortality as they do for mortality in general. Using modern statistical methods, the book shows, for example for the United States, that the fluctuations between winter and summer mortality are smaller the more years someone has spent in school.
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"Roland Rau’s monograph on ‘Seasonality in Human Mortality’ is really welcome. Based on his dissertation, the book comprises two original studies of seasonal mortality, one in the US and the other in Denmark. … This book is the third volume of the Demographic Research Monographs series published since 2004 by Springer for the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. … It is highly appreciated that the new series is also open to young and promising researchers." (Jean-Marie Robine, European Journal of Population, Vol. 24, 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Seasonality in Human Mortality
Book Subtitle: A Demographic Approach
Authors: Roland Rau
Series Title: Demographic Research Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44902-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-44900-3Published: 16 October 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07950-4Published: 25 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-44902-7Published: 24 November 2006
Series ISSN: 1613-5520
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9286
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 216
Topics: Population Economics, Demography, Epidemiology, Public Health, Sociology, general, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law