An integrated approach to cause-of-death analysis: cause-deleted life tables and decompositions of life expectancy

This article integrates two methods that analyze the implications of various causes of death for life expectancy. One of the methods attributes changes in life expectancy to various causes of death; the other method examines the effect of removing deaths from a particular cause on life expectancy. T...

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Main Authors: Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Samuel H. Preston, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2008-07-01
Series:Demographic Research
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Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol19/35/