title: [Adult mortality decline in Costa Rica].
abstract: "This paper examines the adult-mortality transition in Costa Rica and its determinants.  The risk of dying declined by 80% for young adults and by 40% for old adults from 1920 to 1990.  The fastest decline took place in the 1950s for young-adult ages and in the late 1980s for old-adult ages.... By 1990, about 40% of Costa Rican deaths are caused by accidents and violence at young-adult ages and by cardiovascular diseases at old ages.  Infectious and nutritional-related conditions (especially respiratory tuberculosis and malaria) account for three-fourths of the adult-mortality decline between 1951 and 1971, but only for 30% since that year on." (SUMMARY IN ENG)
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rosero-bixby
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000569:Americas; D002423:Cause of Death; D002489:Central America; D003364:Costa Rica; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D007843:Latin America; D009026:Mortality; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics
keywords: Adult; Age Factors; Age Specific Death Rate; Americas; Causes Of Death; Central America; Costa Rica; Death Rate; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Differential Mortality; Latin America; Mortality; Mortality Decline; North America; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics