• Introduction: Recent themes in mortality research: Jon Anson and Marc Luy.- Estimating Life Expectancy in Small Areas, with an Application to Recent Changes in Life Expectancy in US Counties: Peter Congdon.- Socioeconomic determinants of mortality in Europe: Validation of recent models using the latest available data and short-term forecasts: Jeroen Spijker.- Social Disparities in the Evolution of an Epidemiological Profile: Transition Processes in Mortality between 1971 and 2008 in an Industrialized Middle Income Country – The Case of Hungary: Katalin Kovács.- Predicting Mortality from Profiles of Biological Risk and Performance Measures of Functioning: Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn, Latrica E. Best, Jung Ki Kim and Eileen M. Crimmins.- Approaches to the assessment of alcohol-related losses in the Russian population: V. G. Semyonova, N. S. Gavrilova, T. P.  Sabgayda, O. M. Antonova, S. Yu Nikitina, and G. N. Evdokushkina.- Infant mortality measurement and rate of progress on internationalcommitments: a matter of methods or of guarantees of rights? Some evidence from Argentina: María Marta Santillán Pizarro, Eleonora Soledad Rojas Cabrera and Dora Estela Celton.- Avoidable Factors Contributing to Maternal Deaths in Turkey: İlknur Yüksel-Kaptanoğlu, Ahmet Sinan Türkyılmaz and İsmet Koç.- Changes in Mortality at Older Ages: The case of Spain (1975- 2006): Rosa Gómez Redondo, Juan Manuel García González and Aina Faus Bertomeu.- Excess Mortality Risks in Institutions: The Influence of Health and Disability Status: Michel Poulain, Anne Herm and Jon Anson.- Life expectancy differences in Cuba: Are females lessening their advantage over males?: Madelín Gómez and Esther Maria León.- Variable scales of avoidable mortality within the Russian population: T. P. Sabgayda, V. G. Semyonova, A. E. Ivanova and V. I. Starodubov.- Long-term mortality decline in East Asia, with particular reference to changes in age patterns of mortality and major causes of death: Z. Zhao, E. Tu and J. Zhao. ​

"This book is a welcome addition to the growing body of mortality research. While remaining largely descriptive, it covers a broad range of topics and geographies. It therefore succeeds in its aim to provide a snapshot of themes of mortality research. Every mortality scholar will certainly find chapters of interest ... ." (Sven Drefahl, European Journal of Population, Vol. 32, 2016)