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GENERAL MORTALITY [6 records]

Record 1 2018-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Actuarial Practice
  • Life Insurance
CONT

Most traditional actuarial disciplines fall into two main categories : life and non-life. Life actuaries, which include health and pension actuaries, primarily deal with mortality risk, morbidity risk, and investment risk. Products prominent in their work include life insurance, annuities, pensions, short and long term disability insurance, health insurance, health savings accounts, and long-term care insurance... Non-life actuaries, also known as property and casualty or general insurance actuaries, deal with both physical and legal risks that affect people or their property.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Actuariat
  • Assurance sur la vie

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
DEF

The measures of the impact of an intervention on patients’ health status, extending beyond the traditional measures of mortality and morbidity to include dimensions such as physiology, function, social life, cognition, emotions, sleep and rest, energy and vitality, health perception and general life satisfaction.

OBS

Some of these elements are also called health status, functional status or quality-of-life measures.

OBS

health-related quality of life; quality of life; HRQL; HRQoL; QOL: terms, abbreviations and definition standardized by the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Glossary English Editorial Board and the Translation Bureau.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
DEF

Mesures des effets d’une intervention sur l’état de santé des patients allant au-delà des mesures traditionnelles de mortalité et de morbidité pour inclure certaines dimensions comme la physiologie, le fonctionnement, la vie sociale, la cognition, les émotions, le sommeil et le repos, l’énergie et la vitalité, la perception de la santé et la satisfaction générale envers la vie.

OBS

Certains de ces éléments sont aussi appelés état de santé, état fonctionnel ou mesure de la qualité de vie.

OBS

qualité de vie liée à la santé; qualité de vie; QVLS : termes, abréviation et définition normalisés par l'Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS) et le Bureau de la traduction.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Demography
CONT

Related to the concept of an "ultimate" limit to length of life is the idea of compression of mortality. This term is invoked(e. g., Fries, 1980) to describe a population in which the proportion of people surviving to advanced ages begins to approach what is assumed to be a biologically(presumably genetic) predetermined age limit to human survival. At this limit, the survival curve "rectangularizes", although a mathematically precise formulation of what constitutes rectangularization is not yet available. There are, however, a general set of order relations for different types of "survival curves" that we can use graphically to illustrate rectangularization.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Démographie
CONT

La baisse de la mortalité aux âges jeunes fait que la courbe des survivants devient de plus en plus horizontale à ces âges jeunes et de plus en plus verticale aux âges avancés. À cette «rectangularisation», correspond la transformation de la «pyramide» des âges en une tour plus «cylindrique».

Spanish

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Record 4 2008-11-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupational Health and Safety
CONT

The results of epidemiological studies obviously depend on the comparisons made between the cases and control groups used. If the groups are not well matched, the results will not be meaningful. For this reason cases and control groups may be matched for age, sex and race, as well as lifestyle factors like smoking and alcohol consumption. Occupational groups very often have lower total mortality than the general population as the latter includes people unable to work due to illness or disability. In other words, any group of workers is likely to be more healthy than the population as a whole, a phenomenon known as the "healthy worker effect. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Santé et sécurité au travail
CONT

Effet du travailleur bien portant (healthy worker effect) : Fait référence au fait que les travailleurs affichent généralement des taux de mortalité inférieurs à ceux observés dans la population en général, parce que les personnes gravement malades ou handicapées sont habituellement exclues de la population active. Les taux de mortalité s'appliquant à l'ensemble de la population peuvent donc constituer un facteur de comparaison inadéquat lorsqu'on ne tient pas compte de cet effet.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Salud y seguridad en el trabajo
CONT

Efecto del trabajador sano: Los trabajadores son más sanos y tienen por ejemplo mejor función pulmonar que la población general.

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Record 5 1996-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Demography
OBS

Vol. 1 Cancer, Vol. 2 General Mortality, Vol. 3 Urban Mortality. Information found in DOBIS.

OBS

Issued by Health Canada and Statistics Canada, Ottawa.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Démographie
OBS

Vol. 1 Cancer, vol. 2 Mortalité générale, vol. 3 Mortalité en milieu urbain.

OBS

Publié par Santé Canada et Statistique Canada, Ottawa.

Spanish

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Record 6 1993-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistics
  • Demography
CONT

the study of differences in the general death rate of specific occupations is called the study of occupational mortality.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statistique
  • Démographie
CONT

on étudie sous le nom de mortalité par profession, la mortalité des différents groupes professionnels.

Spanish

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