Sökning: "social differences in mortality"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 25 uppsatser innehållade orden social differences in mortality.

1. 11. Kinship structure in Sweden 2041 : Differences between Swedish born and Iranian born in the birth cohort of 1965-1975

   Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Författare :Marcus Immonen Hagley; [2018]
   Nyckelord :Social and Behavioral Science;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to micro-forecast kinship structure from 2017 to the first of January 2041 by using Statistic Sweden’s forecasted mortality rates. The subject of study is the Iranian population of the birth cohort 1965-1975 who have lived in Sweden 2017 and their kin and compare it with a Swedish background sample. LÄS MER

3. 12. Does policy adoption influence the association between socio-economic differences and smoking prevalence? A longitudinal analysis 2008-2015

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Socialmedicin och global hälsa

   Författare :Nefti-Eboni Bempong; [2017]
   Nyckelord :Tobacco; Tobacco control; Tobacco prevention and Socio-economic status; Medicine and Health Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Abstract Introduction: Smoking is a major public health concern, accounting for nearly 700,000 deaths on an annual basis, globally. The socio-economic differences within smoking are well established, reflected in a social gradient that is estimated to account for half of the socio- economic differences in mortality for men aged 35-69 years in developed settings, such as the European region. LÄS MER

4. 13. Klövvilt- och fordonskollisioner : en analys av viltolyckskluster

   Kandidat-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

   Författare :Marielle Riikonen; [2016]
   Nyckelord :klövvilt; viltolyckor; kluster; social organisation;

   Sammanfattning : The expansion of the road network and the rise of traffic volume, as well as the growth in the population size of many ungulate species leads to an increase of ungulate-related accidents. Ungulate-vehicle collisions are a major road safety issue which causes considerable mortality among many species. LÄS MER

5. 14. Religion and Mortality in sub-Saharan Africa

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Författare :Angeliki Managou; [2015]
   Nyckelord :Infant mortality; Child mortality; Under-five mortality; sub-Saharan Africa; Religion; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : The impact of socioeconomic factors on adult and under-five mortality is a subject which has been widely discussed. However, one cannot say the same when it comes to the impact of religion on mortality, and in fact, most of the existing literature has focused on the impact of religious participation on disease-specific mortality among adults. LÄS MER

7. 15. Clean water technologies and urban mortality in Sweden 1885-1925

   Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Författare :Martin Önnerfors; [2015]
   Nyckelord :epidemiology; urban penalty; Sweden; waterborne disease; clean water technology; mortality decline; mortality; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Using a newly digitised historical dataset on clean water technologies in Swedish cities, this study tries to find the causal effect (and the magnitude of this effect) of the introduction of clean water technology on mortality in urban areas. Using urban mortality data on a county level, and clean water access data on city level, both OLS, fixed effects, and difference-in-differences models are tried in order to isolate an effect. LÄS MER