Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2013 Volume 11: Determinants of Unusual and Differential Longevity - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3700176252 ISBN 13: 9783700176251

Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2014

Synopsis

Introduction Graziella Caselli and Marc Luy: Determinants of unusual and differential longevity Refereed Articles Elizabeth Wrigley-Field: Mortality deceleration is not informative of unobserved heterogeneity in open groups Shiro Horiuchi, Nadine Ouellette, Siu Lan Karen Cheung and Jean-Marie Robine: Modal age at death: lifespan indicator in the era of longevity extension Jon Anson: Surviving to be the oldest old-destiny or chance? Michel Poulain, Anne Herm and Gianni Pes: The Blue Zones: areas of exceptional longevity around the world Luis Rosero-Bixby, William H. Dow and David H. Rehkopf: The Nicoya region of Costa Rica: a high longevity island for elderly males Sebastian Klusener and Rembrandt D. Scholz: Regional hot spots of exceptional longevity in Germany Richard G. Rogers, Patrick M. Krueger, Richard Miech and Elizabeth M. Lawrence: Lifetime abstainers and mortality risk in the United States Maria Winkler-Dworak and Heiner Kaden: The longevity of academicians: evidence from the Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig Morgan E. Levine and Eileen M. Crimmins: Evidence of resiliency among long-lived smokers Ethan J. Sharygin and Michel Guillot: Ethnicity, russification and excess mortality in Kazakhstan Graziella Caselli, Rosa Maria Lipsi, Enrica Lapucci and James W. Vaupel: Exploring Sardinian longevity: women fertility and parental transmission of longevity Valerie Jarry, Alain Gagnon and Robert Bourbeau: Maternal age, birth order and other early-life factors: a family-level approach to exploring exceptional survival Leonid A. Gavrilov and Natalia S. Gavrilova: Determinants of exceptional human longevity: new ideas and findings Luisa Salaris, Nicola Tedesco and Michel Poulain: Familial transmission of human longevity: a population-based study in an inland village of Sardinia (Italy), 1850-2010

About this edition

• Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3700176252
• ISBN 13: 9783700176251
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 349
• Editor: Butz Senior Research Scholar And Director Of Communications And Outreach International Institute For Applied Systems Analysis And Wittgenstein Centre For Demography And Human Capital William P, Caselli Director Department Of Demography Graziella, Luy Marc