Boom bust and echo 2000 : profiting from the demographic shift in the 21st century
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat22259
Foot, David K.
--Toronto, ON:
Footwork Consulting Inc.
, 2004.
- Call Number
- HN 103.5 F687b 2004
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Call Number
- HN 103.5 F687b 2004
- Author
- Foot, David K
- Other Authors
- Stoffman, Daniel
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, ON
- Publisher
- Footwork Consulting Inc.
- Date of Publication
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 313 p.
- ISBN
- 1551990296
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Social Conditions - Canada
- Economics - Canada
- Demography - Canada
- Population Dynamics - Canada
- Forecasting
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat43973
Gabriele Doblhammer, Jordi Gumà, editors.
--Cham:
SpringerOpen
, c2018.
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- Open access
- Location
- Online
This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. ; This open access book examines the triangle between family, gender, and health in Europe from a demographic perspective. It helps to understand patterns and trends in each of the three components separately, as well as their interdependencies. It overcomes the widely observable specialization in demographic research, which usually involves researchers studying either family or fertility processes or focusing on health and mortality…
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- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Doblhammer, Gabriele
- Gumà, Jordi
- Responsibility
- Gabriele Doblhammer, Jordi Gumà, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- SpringerOpen
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 303 p.) : 28 illus., 18 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319723563
- 9783319723556 (Print ed.)
- 9783319723570 (Print ed.)
- 9783319891750 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Demography
- Epidemiology
- Family Characteristics
- Gender Identity
- Public Health
- Other Subjects
- Europe
- Specialty
- Population Health
- Social Sciences
- Abstract
- This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
- This open access book examines the triangle between family, gender, and health in Europe from a demographic perspective. It helps to understand patterns and trends in each of the three components separately, as well as their interdependencies. It overcomes the widely observable specialization in demographic research, which usually involves researchers studying either family or fertility processes or focusing on health and mortality. Coverage looks at new family and partnership forms among the young and middle-aged, their relationship with health, and the pathways through which they act. Among the old, lifelong family biography and present family situation are explored. Evidence is provided that partners advancing in age start to resemble each other more closely in terms of health, with the health of the partner being a crucial factor of an individual’s own health. Gender-specific health outcomes and pathways are central in the designs of the studies and the discussion of the results. The book compares twelve European countries reflecting different welfare state regimes and offers country-specific studies conducted in Austria, Germany, Italy--all populations which have received less attention in the past--and Sweden. As a result, readers discover the role of different concepts of family and health as well as comparisons within European countries and ethnic groups. It will be an insightful resource for students, academics, policy makers, and researchers that will help define future research in terms of gender and public health.
- Contents
- Framework -- Summary and Research Implications -- Part I. Keynote Chapters -- Families and Health: A Review -- The New Roles of Men and Women and Implications for Families and Societies -- Sex Differences in Health and Survival -- Part II. Country Specific Chapters -- Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Household Position and Health in Twelve European Countries: Are They Associated with the Value Climate? -- Similarity of Perceived Health Between Household Members: The “Mutual Influences” Hypothesis -- Household Position, Parenthood, and Self-Reported Adult Health. Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence from the Austrian Generations and Gender Survey -- The Contextual and Household Contribution to Individual Health Status in Germany: What Is the Role of Gender and Migration Background? -- Health-Risk Behaviour of Women and Men—Differences According to Partnership and Parenthood. Results of the German Health Update (GEDA) Survey 2009–2010 -- Fertility Histories and Health in Later Life in Italy -- The Effect of Current Family Situation on Slow Walking Speed at Old Age.
- Access
- Open access
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Exceptional Lifespans
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat45713
Heiner Maier, Bernard Jeune, James W. Vaupel, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2021.
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- Location
- Online
How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human survival. It carefully validates data on supercentenarians, aged 110+, and semi-supercentenarians, aged 105-109, stored in the International Database on Longevity (IDL). The chapters in this book contribute substantial advances in rigorously checked facts about exceptional lifespans and in the application of state-of-the-art analytical strategies to understand trends and p…
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- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Maier, Heiner
- Jeune, Bernard
- Vaupel, James W.
- Responsibility
- Heiner Maier, Bernard Jeune, James W. Vaupel, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2021
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (vii, 344 p.) : 118 illus., 74 illus. in color
- Series
- Demographic Research Monographs, A Series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Series Title
- Demographic research monographs
- ISBN
- 9783030499709
- 9783030499693 (Print ed.)
- 9783030499716 (Print ed.)
- 9783030499723 (Print ed.)
- ISSN
- 1613-5520
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Aged, 80 and over
- Longevity
- Specialty
- Demography
- Geriatrics
- Abstract
- How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human survival. It carefully validates data on supercentenarians, aged 110+, and semi-supercentenarians, aged 105-109, stored in the International Database on Longevity (IDL). The chapters in this book contribute substantial advances in rigorously checked facts about exceptional lifespans and in the application of state-of-the-art analytical strategies to understand trends and patterns in these rare lifespans. The book includes detailed accounts of extreme long-livers and how their long lifespans were documented, as well as reports on the causes of death at the oldest ages. Its key finding, based on the analysis of 1,219 validated supercentenarians, is that the annual probability of death is constant at 50% after age 110. In contrast to previous assertions about a ceiling on the human lifespan, evidence presented in this book suggests that lifespan records in specific countries and globally will be broken again and again as more people survive to become supercentenarians.
- Contents
- 1. Preface -- Part I: The International Database on Longevity -- 2. The International Database on Longevity: data resource profile -- Part II: Mortality and longevity studies -- 3. Mortality of supercentenarians: estimates from the updated IDL -- 4. Does the risk of death continue to rise among supercentenarians? -- 5. The human longevity record may hold for decades -- 6. Mortality of centenarians in the United States -- Part III: Cause of death studies -- 7. Causes of death at very old ages, including for supercentenarians -- 8. Causes of death among 9,000 Danish centenarians and semi-supercentenarians in the period 1970-2012 -- Part IV: Country reports -- 9. Supercentenarians and semi-supercentenarians in France -- 10. Centenarians and supercentenarians in Japan -- 11. Centenarians, semi-supercentenarians and the emergence of supercentenarians in Poland -- 12. Extreme longevity in Quebec: Factors and Characteristics -- 13. Semi-supercentenarians in the United States -- Part V: Case studies of exceptional longevity -- 14. The first supercentenarians in history, and recent 115+-year-old supercentenarians -- 15. Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, the first supercentenarian in history? -- 16. Margaret Ann Harvey Neve – 110 years old in 1903. The first documented female supercentenarian -- 17. 113 in 1928? Validation of Delina Filkins as the first “second-century teenager” -- 18. Emma Morano – 117 years and 137 days -- 19. A life cycle of extreme survival spanning three stages: Ana Vela Rubio (1901-2017) -- 20. Validation of 113-year old Israel Kristal as the world’s oldest man -- 21. Age verification of three Japanese supercentenarians who reached age 115 -- 22. Age 115+ in the USA: an update.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Health, United States, 2019
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat26857
National Center for Health Statistics (US).
(2019 edition)
--Hyattsville, MD:
National Center for Health Statistics
, 2021.
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- Location
- Online
Health, United States, 2019 is the 43rd report on the health status of the nation and is submitted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the President and the Congress of the United States in compliance with Section 308 of the Public Health Service Act. This report was compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Health, United States series presents an annual overview of national trends in key health indicators. …
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- Corporate Author
- National Center for Health Statistics (US)
- Edition
- 2019 edition
- Place of Publication
- Hyattsville, MD
- Publisher
- National Center for Health Statistics
- Date of Publication
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
- Health Status Indicators
- Social Determinants of Health
- Other Subjects
- United States
- Specialty
- Demography
- Public Health
- Abstract
- Health, United States, 2019 is the 43rd report on the health status of the nation and is submitted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the President and the Congress of the United States in compliance with Section 308 of the Public Health Service Act. This report was compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Health, United States series presents an annual overview of national trends in key health indicators. The 2019 report presents current information and trends on selected measures of morbidity, mortality, health care utilization and access, health risk factors, prevention, health insurance, and personal health care expenditures in a 20-figure Chartbook. The Health, United States, 2019 Chartbook is supplemented by several other products, including Trend Tables, an At-a-Glance table, Appendixes, and Spotlight Infographics available for download on the Health, United States website at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/index.htm.
- Contents
- Highlights: Health Status and Determinants -- Health Care Access and Utilization -- Health Care Resources -- Health Care Expenditures and Payers -- Chartbook: Health Status and Determinants -- Health Care Access and Utilization -- Health Care Resources -- Health Care Expenditures and Payers -- Chartbook Data Tables -- Technical Notes -- References -- Trend Tables Appendixes: Appendix I. Data Sources -- Appendix II. Definitions and Methods.
- Access
- Open access
- Format
- e-Book
- Publication Type
- Statistics
- Location
- Online
International journal of health geographics
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat18727
- Available Online
- View e-Journal
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Holdings
- Vol 1, 2002 -
- ISSN
- 1476-072X
- Specialty
- Demography
- Global Health
- Format
- e-Journal
- Location
- Online
Nova Scotia statistical review
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat53914
Nova Scotia Department of Economic Development. Statistics Branch.
(9th ed.)
--Halifax, NS:
Nova Scotia Department of Economic Development
, 1992.
- Call Number
- HA 747 N6 N68 1992
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Call Number
- HA 747 N6 N68 1992
- Corporate Author
- Nova Scotia Department of Economic Development. Statistics Branch
- Edition
- 9th ed.
- Place of Publication
- Halifax, NS
- Publisher
- Nova Scotia Department of Economic Development
- Date of Publication
- 1992
- Physical Description
- 83 p.
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Delivery of Health Care - statistics & numerical data
- Demography - statistics & numerical data
- Industry - statistics & numerical data
- Nova Scotia
- Format
- Book
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- 2 weeks
Report on the demographic situation in Canada, 1992 : current demographic analysis
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat54351
[by] Jean Duams ; with the participation of Yoland Lavoie.
--Ottawa, ON:
Statistics Canada
, 1992.
- Call Number
- HB 851 DC2 D886 1992
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Call Number
- HB 851 DC2 D886 1992
- Author
- Dumas, Jean
- Corporate Author
- Statistics Canada. Demography Division
- Responsibility
- [by] Jean Duams ; with the participation of Yoland Lavoie
- Place of Publication
- Ottawa, ON
- Publisher
- Statistics Canada
- Date of Publication
- 1992
- Physical Description
- 157 p. : ill.
- ISSN
- 0715-9293
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Demography
- Population
- Canada
- Format
- Book
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- 2 weeks
Social Background and the Demographic Life Course : Cross-National Comparisons
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat46281
Aart C. Liefbroer, Mioara Zoutewelle-Terovan, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2021.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Access
- Open access
- Location
- Online
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Liefbroer, Aart C.
- Zoutewelle-Terovan, Mioara
- Responsibility
- Aart C. Liefbroer, Mioara Zoutewelle-Terovan, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2021
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 171 pages)
- ISBN
- 9783030673451
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Demography
- Social Determinants of Health
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Specialty
- Demography
- Access
- Open access
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat43972
Michel Oris, Caroline Roberts, Dominique Joye, Michèle Ernst Stähli, editors.
--Cham:
SpringerOpen
, c2016.
- Available Online
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- Open access
- Location
- Online
This open access book details tools and procedures for data collections of hard-to-reach, hard-to-survey populations. Inside, readers will discover first-hand insights from experts who share their successes as well as their failures in their attempts to identify and measure human vulnerabilities across the life course. Coverage first provides an introduction on studying vulnerabilities based on the Total Error Survey framework. Next, the authors present concrete examples on how to survey such p…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Oris, Michel
- Roberts, Caroline
- Joye, Dominique
- Ernst Stähli, Michèle
- Responsibility
- Michel Oris, Caroline Roberts, Dominique Joye, Michèle Ernst Stähli, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- SpringerOpen
- Date of Publication
- c2016
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (vi, 244 p. 23 illus.)
- Series Vol.
- v. 3
- Series Title
- Life course research and social policies
- ISBN
- 9783319241579
- 9783319241555 (Print ed.)
- 9783319241562 (Print ed.)
- 9783319795867 (Print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2211-7776
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Demography
- Health Status Indicators
- Health Surveys - methods
- Risk Factors
- Vulnerable Populations
- Specialty
- Public Health
- Abstract
- This open access book details tools and procedures for data collections of hard-to-reach, hard-to-survey populations. Inside, readers will discover first-hand insights from experts who share their successes as well as their failures in their attempts to identify and measure human vulnerabilities across the life course. Coverage first provides an introduction on studying vulnerabilities based on the Total Error Survey framework. Next, the authors present concrete examples on how to survey such populations as the elderly, migrants, widows and widowers, couples facing breast cancer, employees and job seekers, displaced workers, and teenagers during their transition to adulthood. In addition, one essay discusses the rationale for the use of life history calendars in studying social and psychological vulnerability while another records the difficulty the authors faced when trying to set-up an online social network to collect relevant data. Overall, this book demonstrates the importance to have, from the very beginning, a dialogue between specialists of survey methods and the researchers working on social dynamics across the life span. It will serve as an indispensable resource for social scientists interested in gathering and analyzing data on vulnerable individuals and populations in order to construct longitudinal data bases and properly target social policies.
- Contents
- Surveying Human Vulnerabilities Across the Life Course: Balancing Substantive and Methodological Challenges -- Representation of Vulnerability and the Elderly. A Total Survey Error Perspective on the VLV Survey -- Adapting Quantitative Survey Procedures: The Price for Assessing Vulnerability? Lessons from a Large-Scale Survey on Aging and Migration in Switzerland -- Vulnerability Following a Critical Life Event: Temporary Crisis or Chronic Distress? A Psychological Controversy, Methodological Considerations, and Empirical Evidence -- A Survey of Couples Facing Breast Cancer in Women -- Career Pathways and Professional Transitions: Preliminary Results from the First Wave of a 7-Year Longitudinal Study -- How to Survey Displaced Workers in Switzerland: Ways of Addressing Sources of Bias -- Using Life History Calendars to Survey Vulnerability -- Studying Youth Transitions Through a Social Network: First Impressions -- Attrition in the Swiss Household Panel: Are Vulnerable Groups more Affected than Others?
- Access
- Open access
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat43974
Roland Rau, Christina Bohk-Ewald, Magdalena M. Muszynska, James W. Vaupel.
--Cham:
SpringerOpen
, c2018.
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- Open access
- Location
- Online
This book visualizes mortality dynamics in the Lexis diagram. While the standard approach of plotting death rates is also covered, the focus in this book is on the depiction of rates of mortality improvement over age and time. This rather novel approach offers a more intuitive understanding of the underlying dynamics, enabling readers to better understand whether period- or cohort-effects were instrumental for the development of mortality in a particular country. Besides maps for single countri…
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- Author
- Rau, Roland
- Other Authors
- Bohk-Ewald, Christina
- Muszynska, Magdalena M.
- Vaupel, James W.
- Responsibility
- Roland Rau, Christina Bohk-Ewald, Magdalena M. Muszynska, James W. Vaupel
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- SpringerOpen
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 169 p. 114 illus.)
- Series Vol.
- 44
- ISBN
- 9783319648200
- 9783319648187 (Print ed.)
- 9783319648194 (Print ed.)
- 9783319878805 (Print ed.)
- ISSN
- 1389-6784
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Data Interpretation, Statistical
- Data Visualization
- Demography - methods
- Mortality
- Population Dynamics - statistics & numerical data
- Population Health - statistics & numerical data
- Specialty
- Public Health
- Abstract
- This book visualizes mortality dynamics in the Lexis diagram. While the standard approach of plotting death rates is also covered, the focus in this book is on the depiction of rates of mortality improvement over age and time. This rather novel approach offers a more intuitive understanding of the underlying dynamics, enabling readers to better understand whether period- or cohort-effects were instrumental for the development of mortality in a particular country. Besides maps for single countries, the book includes maps on the dynamics of selected causes of death in the United States, such as cardiovascular diseases or lung cancer. The book also features maps for age-specific contributions to the change in life expectancy, for cancer survival and for seasonality in mortality for selected causes of death in the United States. The book is accompanied by instructions on how to use the freely available R Software to produce these types of surface maps. Readers are encouraged to use the presented tools to visualize other demographic data or any event that can be measured by age and calendar time, allowing them to adapt the methods to their respective research interests. The intended audience is anyone who is interested in visualizing data by age and calendar time; no specialist knowledge is required. This book is open access under a CC BY license. .
- Contents
- 1: Introduction: Why Do We Visualize Data and What Is This Book About? -- 2: The Lexis Diagram -- 3: Data and Software -- 4: Surface Plots of Observed Death Rates -- 5: Surface Plots of Smoothed Mortality Data -- 6: Surface Plots of Rates of Mortality Improvement -- 7: Surface Plots of Rates of Mortality Improvement for Selected Causes of Death in the United States -- 8: Surface Plots of Age-specific Contributions to the Increase in Life Expectancy -- 9: Seasonality of Causes of Death -- 10: Surface Plots for Cancer Survival -- 11: Summary and Outlook -- Additional Figurees -- Software: R package ROMIplot.
- Access
- Open access
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
