Issues of Selection in Human Survivorship:A Theory of Mortality Change from the Mid-Eighteenth to the Early Twenty First Century
Is variation in empirical mortality across populations consistent with a hypothesis of selec-tion? To examine this proposition an extended frailty mortality model is put forward; incor-porating biological frailty; a common non-parametric hazard, joint for men and women, rep-resenting endogenous mort...
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ftcopenhagenunip:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/91e33d20-742a-11dd-8d9f-000ea68e967b 2023-06-18T03:41:23+02:00 Issues of Selection in Human Survivorship:A Theory of Mortality Change from the Mid-Eighteenth to the Early Twenty First Century Hansen, Hans Oluf 2008 application/pdf https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/issues-of-selection-in-human-survivorship(91e33d20-742a-11dd-8d9f-000ea68e967b).html https://curis.ku.dk/ws/files/5731567/PDF eng eng Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Hansen , H O 2008 ' Issues of Selection in Human Survivorship : A Theory of Mortality Change from the Mid-Eighteenth to the Early Twenty First Century ' Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen . /dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/FacultyOfSocialSciences Faculty of Social Sciences biodemography congenital frailty selection heterogeneity cohort mortality stochastic micro-simulation longevity workingPaper 2008 ftcopenhagenunip 2023-06-07T23:34:44Z Is variation in empirical mortality across populations consistent with a hypothesis of selec-tion? To examine this proposition an extended frailty mortality model is put forward; incor-porating biological frailty; a common non-parametric hazard, joint for men and women, rep-resenting endogenous mortality in terms of degenerative aging (senescence); and environ-mental influence on survivorship. As the model is fitted to empirical cohort mortality exhibit-ing extreme variation, biological aging is identified up to a multiplicative factor. Mortality of elected cohorts born in Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland during the past 250 years and in Japan any ten years between 1950 and 1990 is approached appropriately by the model. Reduced natural selection may account for a substantial part of the empirical mortality change in the course of the demographic transition. Survivorship in the late nineteenth and the twentieth century ties selection to major medical advances and rapid recent mortality decline, probably with consequences for future health and survivorship. Report Iceland University of Copenhagen: Research |
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Is variation in empirical mortality across populations consistent with a hypothesis of selec-tion? To examine this proposition an extended frailty mortality model is put forward; incor-porating biological frailty; a common non-parametric hazard, joint for men and women, rep-resenting endogenous mortality in terms of degenerative aging (senescence); and environ-mental influence on survivorship. As the model is fitted to empirical cohort mortality exhibit-ing extreme variation, biological aging is identified up to a multiplicative factor. Mortality of elected cohorts born in Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland during the past 250 years and in Japan any ten years between 1950 and 1990 is approached appropriately by the model. Reduced natural selection may account for a substantial part of the empirical mortality change in the course of the demographic transition. Survivorship in the late nineteenth and the twentieth century ties selection to major medical advances and rapid recent mortality decline, probably with consequences for future health and survivorship. |
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Issues of Selection in Human Survivorship:A Theory of Mortality Change from the Mid-Eighteenth to the Early Twenty First Century |
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Issues of Selection in Human Survivorship:A Theory of Mortality Change from the Mid-Eighteenth to the Early Twenty First Century |
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Issues of Selection in Human Survivorship:A Theory of Mortality Change from the Mid-Eighteenth to the Early Twenty First Century |
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Issues of Selection in Human Survivorship:A Theory of Mortality Change from the Mid-Eighteenth to the Early Twenty First Century |
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Issues of Selection in Human Survivorship:A Theory of Mortality Change from the Mid-Eighteenth to the Early Twenty First Century |
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issues of selection in human survivorship:a theory of mortality change from the mid-eighteenth to the early twenty first century |
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Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen |
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2008 |
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Hansen , H O 2008 ' Issues of Selection in Human Survivorship : A Theory of Mortality Change from the Mid-Eighteenth to the Early Twenty First Century ' Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen . |
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