Is young adult excess mortality a natural phenomenon?

The risk of death is high at birth and during the first years of life, but it decreases through childhood to a minimum at around 10 years. It then begins a steady increase throughout adult life. Young adults, however, are often an exception, with higher than expected mortality, as Adrien Remund, Carlo Giovanni Camarda, and Tim Riffe explain. Is this natural in humans, or are there other factors involved

Is young adult excess mortality a natural phenomenon?

The risk of death is high at birth and during the first years of life, but it decreases through childhood to a minimum at around 10 years. It then begins a steady increase throughout adult life. Young adults, however, are often an exception, with higher than expected mortality, as Adrien Remund, Carlo Giovanni Camarda, and Tim Riffe explain. Is this natural in humans, or are there other factors involved

Is young adult excess mortality a natural phenomenon?

The risk of death is high at birth and during the first years of life, but it decreases through childhood to a minimum at around 10 years. It then begins a steady increase throughout adult life. Young adults, however, are often an exception, with higher than expected mortality, as Adrien Remund, Carlo Giovanni Camarda, and Tim Riffe explain. Is this natural in humans, or are there other factors involved

Inequalities in healthy life expectancy in Switzerland since 1990

La plupart des pays à haut revenu comme la Suisse connaissent un accroissement de l’espérance de vie, mais ce gain est-il le même pour tous ? Et est-il synonyme d’une vie plus longue en bonne santé pour tous ? Utilisant les données de la Cohorte Nationale Suisse et de l’Enquête suisse sur la santé, cette étude montre que les femmes et les hommes ont gagné respectivement 3 ans et 5 ans de vie totale et environ autant en bonne santé sur la période 1990 à 2014. Cependant, le gain d’espérance de vie en bonne santé n’est pas le même selon le niveau d’éducation, stagnant chez les personnes avec un niveau de formation bas (scolarité obligatoire) et augmentant plus vite que l’espérance de vie totale chez celles avec une formation universitaire. Ces résultats montrent que les progrès de santé sont inéquitablement répartis en Suisse

Geneva. An Urban Sociodemographic Database

The Geneva databases are a data resource covering the period 1800–1880 for the city of Geneva, and occasionally the canton of Geneva. The research team adopted an alphabetical sampling approach, collecting data on individuals whose surname begins with the letter B. The individuals and households belonging to this sample in six population censuses between 1816 and 1843 were digitised and linked. A second database collected marriage and divorce records for the period 1800–1880. A third collection of data included residence permits. All these sources were used for a massive reconstitution of families. This article presents the sources, the linking methods, the typologies used to code places and occupations, to study household structures and forms of solitude. Combined with qualitative information extracted from the archives of public administrations and the National Protestant Church, as well as from newspapers, these databases were used to study the transformation of a medium-sized European city, sociopolitical tensions embedded in demographic and social structures, and the impact of the immigrants who made the 'Calvinist Rome' a religiously mixed city

They came and went. An exploratory journey into the mathematics of return migration

In this article, I apply the principles of formal demography to a little-studied aspect of migration, return migration. I exploit certain similarities with mortality settings to propose some key indicators such as rates of return-migration and migration prevalence and incidence. These indicators are applied to the case of 19th-century Geneva, and prove to be especially useful to highlight alternative expectations of the migrants toward the city, as well as long term trends of the schedule of migration. I conclude that migration studies, and particularly migration history, would profit from the adoption of such measures by a larger audience