The birth hump - A shape decomposition of perinatal excess mortality
Please email LCDS.Office@demography.ox.ac.uk for in person and online attendance by Friday 12 May
A natural timescale for studying the effect of labour on the survival of a cohort is the age of gestation measured in weeks since the last menses of the mother. Unlike chronological age, the gestational time scale allows for existence before infancy, thereby making it possible to study birth as a transition. On the aggregate level, this transition appears as a “hump” in an otherwise exponentially declining hazard of death for a cohort of fetuses as we follow them on their way into life. In this talk, Jonas will discuss his research studying this gestational age pattern across multiple populations with a particular focus on describing the phenomenon of the “birth hump” – the excess risk of death associated with the transition of birth.
Date: 15 May 2023, 14:15 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2023)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Large Lecture Room or online
Speaker: Dr Jonas Schöley (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)
Organising department: Department of Sociology
Organiser: Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: LCDS.Office@demography.ox.ac.uk
Hosts: Bettina Szilvasi (University of Oxford), Jennifer Dowd (University of Oxford)
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: LCDS.Office@demography.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Bradley Hall-Smith