TRENDS IN U.S. ADULT CHRONIC DISEASE MORTALITY, 1960-1999: AGE, PERIOD, AND COHORT VARIATIONS*

From: Demography | Date: May 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

In this paper, I examine temporal changes in U.S. adult mortality by chronic disease cause of death and by sex over a 40-year period in the second half of the twentieth century. I apply age-period-cohort (APC) analyses that combine conventional approaches and a new method of model estimation to s imultaneously account for age, period, and cohort variations in mortality rates for four leading causes of deaths, including heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, and breast cancer. The results show that large reductions in mortality since the late 1960s continued well into the late 1990s and that these ...

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