Mortality Patterns and Trends in the United States

Subjects:

• Sociology » Demography

Reviews:

• This book will enable the student/researcher to better understand what causes such changes in mortality rates and the effects of such changes on society. Advanced undergraduate through professional.
  —Choice
• This reference book, useful for college professors and students, contains extensive data compilations and explanations of what those data may mean.
  —Abstracts in Social Gerontology
• The sheer amount of coverage of differentials and geographic distribution of patterns and trends guarantees that everyone will find one or more areas of interest, and the reader who becomes immersed in the book will almost become an expert. The author's fluid writing style, along with a fairly detailed index, makes for easy reading. Certainly, every library will want this book on its shelves; and people who have any substantial interest in the topic of mortality...should consider having a copy close at hand.
  —Social Forces
• In a straightforward manner, this book presents a rich array of demographic data about mortality, situated squarely within a framework of social explanation....Zopf has produced a readable, lucid discussion of mortality for this useful series.
  —Contemporary Sociology
• The book is written clearly and intelligently and provides a stimulating mix of data, interpretation, and teaching of epidemiologic methodology.
  —The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Table of Contents:

• Figures
• Tables
• Preface
• Introduction: Perspectives on Mortality
• General Mortality and Differentials
• Infant Mortality
• Cause of Death: Differentials and Distribution
• Trends in Cause of Death
• Life Expectancy
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index