Buch, Englisch, Band special issue, 349 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 600 g
Special Issue on Determinants of unusual and differential longevity
Buch, Englisch, Band special issue, 349 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 600 g
Reihe: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
ISBN: 978-3-7001-7625-1
Verlag: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Introduction
Graziella Caselli and Marc Luy: Determinants of unusual and differential longevity
Refereed Articles
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field: Mortality deceleration is not informative of unobserved heterogeneity in open groups
Shiro Horiuchi, Nadine Ouellette, Siu Lan Karen Cheung and Jean-Marie Robine: Modal age at death: lifespan indicator in the era of longevity extension
Jon Anson: Surviving to be the oldest old—destiny or chance?
Michel Poulain, Anne Herm and Gianni Pes: The Blue Zones: areas of exceptional longevity around the world
Luis Rosero-Bixby, William H. Dow and David H. Rehkopf: The Nicoya region of Costa Rica: a high longevity island for elderly males
Sebastian Klüsener and Rembrandt D. Scholz: Regional hot spots of exceptional longevity in Germany
Richard G. Rogers, Patrick M. Krueger, Richard Miech and Elizabeth M. Lawrence: Lifetime abstainers and mortality risk in the United States
Maria Winkler-Dworak and Heiner Kaden: The longevity of academicians: evidence from the Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig
Morgan E. Levine and Eileen M. Crimmins: Evidence of resiliency among long-lived smokers
Ethan J. Sharygin and Michel Guillot: Ethnicity, russification and excess mortality in Kazakhstan
Graziella Caselli, Rosa Maria Lipsi, Enrica Lapucci and James W. Vaupel: Exploring Sardinian longevity: women fertility and parental transmission of longevity
Valérie Jarry, Alain Gagnon and Robert Bourbeau: Maternal age, birth order and other early-life factors: a family-level approach to exploring exceptional survival
Leonid A. Gavrilov and Natalia S. Gavrilova: Determinants of exceptional human longevity: new ideas and findings
Luisa Salaris, Nicola Tedesco and Michel Poulain: Familial transmission of human longevity: a population-based study in an inland village of Sardinia (Italy), 1850–2010
