Age differentials with respect to the onset of specific diseases: a study of the relation of age to wastage in an army population

Abstract

1. Introduction || 2. Age distributions based on sampling: Variance of Relative Liability Table 1. Specimen distribution of sampling errors with respect to representative relative age-incidence distributions of various sample sizes || 3. Relative age-incidence distributions of admissions to hospital in the. United Kingdom: Table 2. Actual and calculated age distributions of U.K. army population at March 1945 Table 3. Estimated age distributions of U.K. army population at June 1943 on the basis of assumptions I, II and III Table 4. Relative age-incidence contributions using strengths calculated on the basis of assumptions I and III Table 5. Relative age-incidence distributions of admissions to hospital in the U.K. - Males Age incidence in the Female population Table 6. Relative age -incidence distributions of admissions to hospital in the U.K. - females Sex differentials Table 7. Male standardising factors with respect to U.K. hospital admissions || 4. Relative age- incidence distributions of admissions to hospital in the Middle East: Table 8. Relative strength-age distributions Table 9. Comparison between two estimated age-incidence distributions of admissions to hospital in Middle East and the true age-incidence distributions of all medical discharges w.r.t. two marker diseases Table 10. Comparison between two estimated age - incidence distributions of admissions to hospital in Middle East and true age - incidence distributions of admissions to hospital in U.E. w.r.t. two marker diseases Table 11. Relative age-incidence distributions of admissions to hospital in Middle East - Males || 5. Relative age incidence distributions of discharges from the Army on medical grounds: Table 12. Relative age-incidence distributions of discharges from the Army on medical grounds - males Table 13. Relative age- incidence distributions of discharges from the Army on medical grounds - females Table 12. Relative discharge rates in 6-year age groups - males Table 15. Annual age standardising factors for discharge rates - males Table 16. Annual age standardising factors for discharge rates - females || 6. Comarison between are- incidence distributions of admissions to hospital and of medical discharges from the Army: Table 17. Comparison of relative age -incidence distributions of admissions to hospital in U.K.. and of discharges from the Army on medical grounds - males || 7. Relation of age to duration of hospitalisation: Table 18. Specimen Standard Errors at 10% level for various sample sizes with respect to relative duration of stay in hospital Table 19. Average duration of stay (days) in Middle East hospitals by age - males, 1914 Table 20. Relative duration of stay in Middle East. hospitals - males, 1944 || 8. Discussion: Illustrative numerical examples of Recurrent Equations relating immunity to age - incidence distributions of communicable diseases || 9. Literature cited || 10. Supplementary Material Appendix I