European Working Group on Health, Morbidity and Mortality
Tallinn Workshop, September 2012: New measures of mortality – what
?do they mean
,Estonian Institute for Population Studies, Tallinn University, Tallinn
Uus-Sadama 5 room 553 (MARE building) , 5 – 7 September 2012
Tentative programme
Wednesday 5th September
Baltic mortality, this session is organised by France Meslé 18:00 – 14:00
and Jacques Vallin, and is dedicated to the memory of Kalev Katus.
:Papers will include
Domantas Jasilionis and Vlada Stankuniene, Sociodemographic and
socioeconomic mortality differentials in the three Baltic countries: an
overview of research and methodological issues
Juris Krumins and Natalja Dubkova, Recent changes in mortality in the
light of preliminary results from the Population Census 2011
Vladimir Shkolnikov, Dmitri Jdanov, Domantas Jasilionis, Mikko
Myrskyla, Pekka Martikainen and David Leon, Commonalities and
differences in mortality inequalities between and within countries:
Finland and Lithuania
)Conference Dinner ( Restaurant Platz, Roseni 8 19:30
Thursday 6th September
Construction and use of life tables .10:30 – 8:30
Zane Cunska, Multistatus life tables for modelling higher education:
methodological issues
)Julie Mills, Life tables from the British Office for National Statistics (ONS
Mike Murphy, Construction and use of cause-specific cohort life tables for
England and Wales, 1861-2000
Taha Nourollahi, Estimating Life Expectancy and Construction of Life Tables
)in Iran (Past, present, future
:Health, health services and mortality 13:00 – 11:00
Anne Herm and Michel Poulain, Construction of a life table to characterize
mortality by living arrangement
Pekka Martikainen, Pia Mäkelä and Mikko Myrskylä, The contribution of
alcohol and smoking to gender and socioeconomic differences in life
expectancy in Finland from 1971 to 2010
Mike Murphy and Pekka Martikainen, Use of life tables classified by years
after birth and years before death to analyse use of health care services
among older people: application to forecasts for Finland
Alexander Ramonov, Survival models integrating information on population
health
LUNCH
Period and Cohort Mortality ,16:00 – 14:00
Hans Oluf Hansen, Measuring Period Factors in Human Survivorship
Rufteen Shumanty, Period and cohort mortality in Quebec and in Canada
since 1921
Klára Hulíková Tesárková and Petr Mazouch, Cohort effects in period
mortality data
Quantum and Tempo Effects 18:30 – 16:30
Marc Luy, What tempo‐adjusted life expectancy measures and what not: a
systematic explanation of the Bongaarts and Feeney approach
José Antonio Ortega, Cohorts of death: Additive cohort and period mortality
.measures in open populations
Christian Wegner-Siegmundt, The origin of tempo effects in period mortality
Friday, 7 September
)Mortality models (double session 12:00 – 09:00
Natalia S. Gavrilova and Leonid A. Gavrilov, Mortality Measurements and
Mortality Trajectories at Advanced Ages
Fanny Janssen and Joop de Beer, Including the general dynamic in the age
pattern of mortality in mortality projections
Kamellia Lillova, Numerical techniques for survival function analysis
Isabelle A. Rossi, Valentin Rousson and Fred Paccaud, The contribution of
rectangularization to the secular increase of life expectancy: an empirical
study
Marta Sugareva, Ivelina Diamandieva and Svetoslav Markov, Agespecific mortality dynamics in the European countries after World War
II
LUNCH 12.00-13.00
Tour of Tallinn, organised by the Estonian Institute for 16.00 -14.00
.Population Studies, Tallinn University
Departure from Uus-Sadama 5, Tallinn University Mare building