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Igor Akushevich

Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute
Social Science Research Institute
Box 90420, Durham, NC 27708-0408
2024 West Main Street, Box 90420, Durham, NC 27705

Scholarly Works - Book sections


Circulatory Diseases and Aging

Book section · October 6, 2016 Age patterns of incidence rates of major circulatory diseases (CDs), their time trends, risk factors, and other characteristics capable of contributing to the debates on the role of aging in the deterioration of human health are investigated using standard ... Full text Cite

Methodological aspects of studying human aging, health, and mortality

Book section · January 1, 2013 Age trajectories of mortality rates in human populations characterize individuals’ inequality in the duration of life. Various models of mortality rates are used in the analyses of survival data in demographic and epidemiological applications aiming to ide ... Full text Cite