Bah S M
Department of Sociology, University of Zimbabwe, Harare.
Soc Biol. 1994 Fall-Winter;41(3-4):212-28. doi: 10.1080/19485565.1994.9988873.
Over the period 1969-86, Mauritian mortality declined rapidly, accompanied by substantial change in its age pattern of mortality and cause-of-death structure. Using cause-of-death data for this period, this paper studies the influence of cause-of-death structure on age patterns of mortality. Infectious and parasitic diseases had marked influence on age patterns of mortality for young Mauritian males, while circulatory causes of death influenced the age pattern of mortality for older Mauritian males. For females, their unique age pattern of mortality remained unique, largely because of the uniform and smooth change in cause-of-death structure.
在1969年至1986年期间，毛里求斯的死亡率迅速下降，同时其死亡率的年龄模式和死因结构也发生了重大变化。利用这一时期的死因数据，本文研究了死因结构对死亡率年龄模式的影响。传染病和寄生虫病对毛里求斯年轻男性的死亡率年龄模式有显著影响，而循环系统疾病死因则影响了毛里求斯老年男性的死亡率年龄模式。对于女性来说，她们独特的死亡率年龄模式仍然独特，这主要是由于死因结构的均匀和平滑变化。
