Friday, May 2 / 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM   •   Directors Row 3

Session 74:
Mortality Measurement

Chair: Thomas LeGrand, University of Montreal
Discussant: Barthelemy Kuate-Defo, University of Montreal

  1. Infant Mortality in Brazil: A Probabilistic Record Linkage Approach • Carla J Machado, Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional (CEDEPLAR) ; Kenneth Hill, Johns Hopkins University

  2. Assessing the Validity of Adult Mortality Estimates Measured through Questions on Sibling Survival in Household Surveys • Emmanuela E. Gakidou, World Health Organization (WHO) ; Christopher J.L. Murray, World Health Organization (WHO) ; Margaret Hogan, World Health Organization (WHO) ; Alan D. Lopez, World Health Organization (WHO)

  3. New Life Tables for Latin America: An Investigation of the Evolution of Mortality Patterns since 1900 • Guido Pinto, University of Wisconsin at Madison

  4. Aggregation and Insurance-Mortality Estimation • William H. Dow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Kristy Gonzalez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Luis Rosero-Bixby, Universidad de Costa Rica

  5. New Life Tables for Sub-Saharan African Countries • Pierre Ngom, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) ; Alex Ezeh, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

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