Cancer death drop tied to education level.
Recent declines in death rates from the four leading types of cancer in the United States have been driven largely by progress among college-educated men and women, according to a study in the July Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Death rates for lung, breast, prostate and...

At 351-500 CD4 cells, HAART halved HIV deaths: Death rates were 10.7 per 1,000 patient-years with and 18.2 without treatment. (Earlier Initiation of Therapy).
SEATTLE -- Initiating highly active antiretroviral therapy when the patient still has a CD4 cell count between 351 and 500 cells/ [micro]L may be associated with less mortality than waiting until the CD4 count drops below 350 cells/ [micro]L, as is often the standard practice, Dr. Frank J. Palella...

Modernization and Inuit suicide tied, 3-country study shows, rate now falling.
Modernization was accompanied by rising suicide rates among Inuit in Alaska, Greenland and Nunavut in Canada, sociologist Jack Hicks reports in Indigenous Affairs, Jan. 08. However, he also reports that suicide rates might be on the down slope. Hicks, a PhD candidate who lives in Iqaluit, NU,...

Who gets health care?
Around the world, as in the United States, concern is growing about who gets health care. (1) Individuals from different socioeconomic backgrounds face distressingly different prospects of living a healthy life. As numerous studies confirm, the disparities in various measures of health between the privileged and the deprived remain...

Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, MORTPAK for Windows Version 4.0.
Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, MORTPAK for Windows Version 4.0. New York: United Nations, 2003. The United Nations has released Version 4.0 of its demographic software package MORTPAK. Although MORTPAK 4.0 is designed primarily to estimate mortality, it includes population projections, life...

U.S. fares poorly in international health comparisons.
While most Americans can expect to live into old age, international comparisons indicate a strikingly poor showing on basic health statistics. At every age under 65 (infants, children, and young and middle-aged adults), death rates are higher for U.S. residents than they are in many or most other developed...

Changing cause of death profile in Morocco: the impact of child-survival programmes.
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to evaluate the trends in cause-specific mortality and the impact of childsurvival programmes in Morocco. Two national surveys on causes and circumstances of child deaths were conducted in Morocco in 1988 and 1998 (ECCD-1 and ECCD-2 respectively). These surveys were based...

Temperature and direct effects on population health in Brisbane, 1986-1995.
Introduction A range of impacts on population health due to climate change have been documented, although these climate/health relationships are not very well understood (McMichael & Githeko, 2001; McMichael, Woodruff, & Whetton, 2003; Patz, Campbell-Lendrum, Holloway, & Foley, 2005). The health risks include some that are directly...

HEALTH OF THE NATION.
AUSTRALIANS have never been healthier. The average length of life has never been longer. Medical practices have never been so certain, and are improving visibly. Yet there is chronic dissatisfaction among economists and health care professionals, even a sense of crisis. Like taxes and death (that closely...

Struck-by-lightning deaths in the United States.
Introduction In the United States, the average annual numbers of deaths from lightning exceeds the number from other natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, tornadoes, and blizzards) (Cooper & Andrews, 1995). Millions of lightning strikes occur every year, and although the risk of being struck is low, the consequences...