Analyza umrtnosti na zhoubné novotvary v regionalnim pohledu. (Analysis of mortality due to malignant tumours in the regional view)
Cancer of particular human organs shows a different frequency in occurrence in various regions. The regional analysis shows the mortality in dependence on the cause of death in the Czech Socialist Republic according males and females. (MS).
Spatial variations in New Zealand's infant mortality rate, 1970-1972
Infant mortality rates have declined over the years although not as sharply nor to such low levels as in some of the countries of Europe. More critical, however, are the wide variations occurring between communities within New Zealand.
The impact of migration on mortality and fertility in St. Kitts-Nevis and the U.S. Virgin Islands
The age-sex selectivity of migration suggests that large scale emigration retards the mortality transition and accelerates the fertility transition in sending societies while immigration accelerates the mortality transition and arrests or even
Health ; Life expectancy ; Mortality ; Social geography ; Social indicators ; Social inequality ; World
in mortality situation within Europe is also presented and explained, and the health situation of Hungary among the WHO countries defined. The study is based on WHO statistics such as infant and adult mortality rates, average life expectancy at birth by sex
, mortality rate by selected groups of death causes. - (AM)
A dendrochronological method of studying tree mortality patterns
Biogeography ; Colorado ; Conifer ; Dendrochronology ; Dendrology ; Forest ; Mortality ; Mountain ; Spatial variation ; United States of America
as a technique for describing tree mortality patterns; to find out of the general pattern of tree death over time has been continuous or episodic; and to evaluate the use of tree decay characteristics for estimating relative dates of tree death.
Spatial clusters and variability analysis of tree mortality
Biogeography ; Cluster analysis ; Forest ; Geographical information system ; Georgia (USA) ; Inventory ; Mortality ; Spatial analysis ; Sustainable development ; Tree ; United States of America
The AA. focus on the spatial cluster characteristics of forest tree mortality in the state of Georgia by using permanent plot data from the 1989 and 1997 FIA inventories, spatial scan statistic and semivariogram analysis methods, and geographic
Czech mortality patterns : the past, the present and regional dissimilarities
Czech Republic ; Health ; Human geography ; Medical geography ; Mortality ; Regional disparities
Historical perspectives of mortality changes and current patterns by cause in regions. During the interwar period, mean length of life increased and was close to the levels observed in France. From the mid -1960s to the mid-1980s the deterioration
Infant mortality in Ottawa, Canada, 1901 : assessing cultural, economic and environmental factors
Canada ; Ethnic community ; Health ; Historical geography ; Infant mortality ; Living conditions ; Ontario ; Ottawa ; Urban area ; Urban environment
of the highest rates have the worst living conditions. The AA. determine whether cultural factors are more or less important to the incidence of infant mortality than economic factors.
Medikogeograficky pohlad na rozsirenie infekcnych a parazitarnych ochoreni na Slovensku na baze mortality. (Geomedical view of the mortality distribution of infections and parasitic diseases in Slovakia)
Air temperature ; Atmospheric pressure ; Barcelona ; Catalonia ; Climate ; Impact ; Mortality ; Spain ; Winter
The aim of this study is a better knowledge of the influences of temperature and pressure on the mortality in Barcelona during the cold months (November-March). Significant negative correlations can be found between temperatures and mortality (total
population and older than 65). Synoptic weather types and critical days with high mortality are considered. - (BJ)
Cancer ; Cornwall ; Devon ; England ; Environment ; Health ; Mortality ; Pollution ; United Kingdom
Cross-sectional geographical data do not support the hypothesis that raised levels of radon indoors in southwest England have an important effect on lung cancer mortality.