Medical Risks: Trends in Mortality by Age and Time Elapsed Volume 1

A. Lew, Edward and Jerzy Gajewski:

ISBN 10: 0275937879 / ISBN 13: 9780275937874

Published by Greenwood Pub Group Inc, 1990

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368 pages Good condition. Retired library exemplar with usual stamps/ stickers. Reading pages are very clean. --- Guter Zustand. Leseseiten sind sehr sauber und ohne Markierungen. Ausgeschiedenes Bibliotheksexemplar mit entsprechender Kennzeichnung und leichten Lager- bzw. Gebrauchsspuren. Ansonsten sehr gutes und ordentliches Exemplar. 9780275937874 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1928.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Medical Risks: Trends in Mortality by Age and Time Elapsed Volume 1
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group Inc
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0275937879
• ISBN 13: 9780275937874
• Binding: Hardcover, 25.9 x 18 x 6.1 cm
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medizin

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Synopsis

Medical Risks is the fruit of ten years' research into mortality patterns by age and time elapsed for a wide variety of medical conditions. It contains more detailed information on prognosis in specific impairments than can be found in any medical textbook. Indeed, it constitutes the largest compilation of evaluated data about prognosis according to age, sex, time elapsed, and other factors affecting mortality--notably for: cancer; cardiovascular diseases; hypertension; respiratory diseases; gastrointestinal diseases; genitourinary disorders; endocrine and metabolic disorders; neurological and psychiatric disorders; overweight and underweight problems; and occupational and lifestyle hazards.

The findings have been summarized in thirteen overview chapters, supported by nearly 400 abstracts of mortality studies among hospital patients, patients of individual or group physicians, persons included in special surveys, insured lives, and other selected populations. The abstracts focus on the relative mortality experiences as compared with healthy lives or the general population. The abstracts based on the experience among insured lives also indicate the reductions in life expectancy for various impairments. The diversity of the results in different investigations calls attention to the wide range of variability in medical risks under different circumstances. The scientific importance of the volume lies primarily in the evaluation and analyses of the mortality experience, which is presented in a uniform life table format that facilitates comparisons. No single work covers similar ground as extensively and in as much technical detail. A scientist or physician who needs data on medical risks would have to consult hundreds of books, articles, and research reports to obtain comparable information.

About the Author

EDWARD A. LEW, A.M., F.S.A., is currently Chairman of the Society of Actuaries' Research Management Committee, and he is a former President of that organization. Prior to his retirement he was Vice President and Actuary at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Co-Editor

JERZY GAJEWSKI, M.D., Ph.D., is a former Vice President and Medical Director of the North American Reassurance Company. Currently he is a medical consultant to Swiss Reassurance Company.

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