Despite the skyrocketing growth in recent decades of environmental studies on ports and
ship**, their local health impacts remain largely under-researched. This article tackles this …

Background Certain causes of death can be avoided with access to timely prevention and
treatment. We quantified trends in avoidable deaths from cardiovascular diseases for …

The mortality gap between former East and West Germany decreased rapidly in the decade
following the reunification of the country in 1990. However, because no previous study has …

Background Twenty years after the 2004 European Union (EU) enlargement, life expectancy
differences between established (EMS) and new member states (NMS) remain large …

The conventional approach to gauging mortality convergence in Europe relies on life
expectancy estimates (e 0 e^0) at the national level. However, mortality can differ within …

Although European integration can be expected to result in mortality convergence (reduced
mortality differences), a life expectancy divide persists in the European Union (EU) between …

This paper studies the existence of international health outcome disparities. We focus on the
use of the potential years of life lost for a database that includes information from 33 OECD …

In 2019, the organising committee of the Annual Meeting of the German Society for
Demography (DGD) proposed a joint conference with the Hungarian Demographic …

World population growth is falling due to declining fertility rates, increase in literacy rate,
women labour market participation and the rapid urbanization. Africa is an exception. With …

Greece and Bulgaria are neighboring countries. In the 19th century, the two countries
became independent after the Greеk-Turkish and Russian-Turkish Wars, respectively. After …