Laboratory

Population Health

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Trends in the Age Patterns of Morbidity and Mortality: Monitoring and New Methodological Approaches

Kieron Barclay, Timothy Riffe, Maarten Jacob Bijlsma, Alyson van Raalte, Jorge Cimentada, Sebastian Klüsener (MPIDR / Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany)

Morbidity and mortality present regular patterns of time variation, social gradients, and linear relationships between higher distributional moments. This project exploits novel signals in such patterns to improve the measurement, prediction, and evaluation of disease and mortality burdens.  Detailed Description

Publications

Cimentada, J.; Klüsener, S.; Riffe, T.:

Exploring the demographic history of populations with enhanced Lexis surfaces

Demographic Research 42:6, 149–164. (2020)    

Aburto, J. M.; Riffe, T.; Canudas Romo, V.:

Trends in avoidable mortality over the life course in Mexico, 1990–2015: a cross-sectional demographic analysis

BMJ Open 8:7, e022350–e022350. (2018)    

Cohen, J. E.; Bohk-Ewald, C.; Rau, R.:

Gompertz, Makeham, and Siler models explain Taylor's law in human mortality data

Demographic Research 38:29, 773–842. (2018)    

Lerch, M.; Oris, M.:

Mortality during heat episodes in Switzerland: a story of vulnerability

In: Building bridges: scholars, history and historical demography; a Festschrift in honor of Professor Theo Engelen, 626–646. Nijmegen: Valkhof Pers. (2018)    

Remund, A.; Camarda, C. G.; Riffe, T.:

A cause-of-death decomposition of young adult excess mortality

Demography 55:3, 957–978. (2018)    

Riffe, T.; Chung, P. H.; Spijker, J.; MacInnes, J.:

Time-to-death patterns in markers of age and dependency

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 14:2016, 229–254. (2017)    

Riffe, T.; van Raalte, A. A.; Bijlsma, M. J.:

Healthy life expectancy, mortality, and age prevalence of morbidity

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-015. (2017)    

Riffe, T.; Chung, P. H.; Spijker, J.; MacInnes, J.:

Time-to-death patterns in markers of age and dependency

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2015-003. (2015)