Sentences with phrase «assumptions about mortality»

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• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

The mortality numbers also depend to some degree on the accuracy of assumptions about how exposure to different levels of pollution affects disease risk.

The German - born, Vancouver - based artist Birthe Piontek has gained attention in recent years for her evocative photographic still life and portraiture, which often cleverly challenges our assumptions about intimacy, subjectivity, and mortality.

Extrapolating what we do know about mortality causes and avoidance of structures leads to the assumption that prairie - chickens could suffer tremendously from these latest prairie invaders [oil, gas, and wind developers], but, to what extent is not yet known.

The probability of a future payment is based on assumptions about the person's future mortality which is typically estimated using a life table.

With those assumptions, the policy would be worth only about $ 425,000 rather than $ 480,000; we can infer that the impact on returns would be less severe than the impact of the mortality rate shock in the longevity risk example.

An agent thinks they need to present the lowest price to win the business of a client and the only way they can lower the price and keep the same face amount is by putting all of the weight of the policy on assumptions about interest, mortality experience and company performance as opposed to putting the health of the policy all in the guaranteed column.

Since all life insurance pricing is based on mortality assumptions, the more a life insurance company knows about the risk, the more reasonably they can price the product.