MAP20070025306Differential mortality : methodological issues and biosocial factors / edited by Lado Ruzicka, Guillaume Wunsch, Penny Kane. — Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1995VIII, 259 p. ; 24 cmSumario: Problems and issues in the study of mortality differentials -- Conceptual frameworks and causal modelling -- The integration of demographic and epidemiologie approaches to studies of health in developing countries -- Some methodological issues in the assessment of the deceleration of the mortality decline -- Measures of preventable deaths in developing countries: some methodological issues and approaches -- Changing trends in mortality decline during the last decades -- Trends in socio-economic differentials in infant mortality in selected Latin American Countries -- Socio-economic differentials in infant and child mortality in Indonesia in the 1970s: trends, causes, and implications -- Determinants of child mortality in Turkey -- Effects of inter-birth intervals on infant and early childhood mortality -- Mortality and health dynamics at older ages -- Crisis mortality: extinction and near-extinction of human populations -- Famine in China 1959-61: demographic and social implications