Vladimir Shkolnikov
John R. Wilmoth
Dana A. Glei

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/10/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.10

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Abstract
This introduction to the special collection “Human Mortality over Age, Time, Sex, and Place: The 1st HMD Symposium” describes the Human Mortality Database project and briefly summarizes the Special Collection articles.

Author's affiliation
Vladimir Shkolnikov
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
John R. Wilmoth
University of California at Berkeley, United States of America
Dana A. Glei
University of California at Berkeley, United States of America

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Related links

	collection paper 13-11 by J. Wilmoth
	collection paper 13-12 by K. Hill, Y. Choi, and I. Timaeus
	collection paper 13-13 by G. Pison
	collection paper 13-14 by D. Jdanov, R. Scholz, and V. Shkolnikov
	collection paper 13-15 by D. Glei, S. Bruzzone, and G. Caselli
	collection paper 13-16 by D. Jdanov, E. Andreev, and D. Jasilionis, and V. Shkolnikov
	collection paper 13-17 by I. Waldron, C. McCloskey, and I. Earle
	collection paper 13-18 by F. Pampel
	collection paper 13-19 by I. Elo and G. Drevenstedt
	collection paper 13-20 by R. Gómez-Redondo and C. Boe

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Other articles by the same author/authors (in Demographic Research)

	[13-16] Estimates of mortality and population changes in England and Wales over the two World Wars
	[13-15] The effects of war losses on mortality estimates for Italy: A first attempt
	[13-14] Official population statistics and the Human Mortality Database estimates of populations aged 80+ in Germany and nine other European countries
	[13-11] On the relationship between period and cohort mortality
	[12-13] Geographical diversity of cause-of-death patterns and trends in Russia
	[10-12] A summary of Special Collection 2: Determinants of Diverging Trends in Mortality
	[10-1] Educational differentials in male mortality in Russia and northern Europe: A comparison of an epidemiological cohort from Moscow and St. Petersburg with the male populations of Helsinki and Oslo
	[8-11] Gini coefficient as a life table function: Computation from discrete data, decomposition of differences and empirical examples
	[7-14] Algorithm for decomposition of differences between aggregate demographic measures and its application to life expectancies, healthy life expectancies, parity-progression ratios and total fertility rates
	[7-5] The Cancer Transition in Japan since 1951
	[5-7] Life expectancy in two Caucasian countries. How much due to overestimated population?
	[S2-1] Introduction to the Special Collection of papers on "Determinants of diverging trends in mortality"
	[S2-4] Russian mortality beyond vital statistics: Effects of social status and behaviours on deaths from circulatory disease and external causes - a case-control study of men aged 20-55 years in Urdmurtia, 1998-99

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