Main description:

In the preface to Volume 1 of the 'Annals of Life Insurance Medicine' Dr. MAX E. EISENRING described the goal of this publication as follows: "Any project which aims at contributing substantially to the modern science of medical underwriting can do so only if the many people preoccupied with these problems throughout the world join forces to the ultimate benefit of those most in need of life assurance." In an endeavour to keep the life insurance medical directors all over the world informed of the developments in the field of life insurance medicine, we have decided to publish the papers which were presented at the 11 th International Congress of Life Assurance Medicine in Mexico in 1973 in Volume 5 of the 'Annals'. We are most grateful to Dr. J. REN06N, President of the Organizing Commit tee of the Congress in Mexico for having consented to our publishing the proceed ings of the Congress in a special edition of the 'Annals'. It is a source of great satisfaction to us that in this way a much larger circle of life insurance medical directors can be reached than would have been the case if only the participants themselves were to receive the proceedings of the Congress. Dissemination of the results of medical research on an international basis, in particular those findings that have a bearing on life insurance medicine, is one of our foremost aims.

Contents:

Ceremonia de Inauguracion.- Presentacion de Mexico.- I Sesion.- Water Pollution and its Health Effects in Japan.- The Epidemiology and Control of Man-Made Diseases.- Facteurs de haut risque pour le pronostic lointain, provenant des aero-contaminants et de leurs consequences sur les voies respiratoires.- Pollution par les radiations ionisantes.- II Sesion.- Bradicardia y taquicardia sinusales, extrasistoles.- Taquicardias aspectos fisiopatologicos.- El significado de la taquicardia sinusal, taquicardia auricular, taquicardia de la union, taquicardia ventricular y el sindrome de Wolff-Parkinson-White.- Comunicacion preliminar acerca de la incidencia y pronostico de los hemibloqueos.- El electrocardiograma de esfuerzo en el seguro de vida.- III Sesion.- Prognose der chronischen Polyarthritis und der Kollagenosen unter dem Einfluss der Langzeittherapie.- The Diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Allied Disorders.- Long-Term Treatment with Corticosteroids in Rheumatoid Arthritis over a Period of 19 to 22 Years.- IV Sesion.- Spatfolgen bei den verschiedenen Malariaformen und Frage der Einschrankung der Lebenserwartung durch das UEberstehen einer Malaria.- Repercusion economica del absceso hepatico amibiano.- Coccidioidomicosis.- V Sesion.- Extra Mortality Risk in the Older Insurance Applicant.- De la influencia de tres enfermedades frecuentes no malignas y a menudo asintomaticas del aparato digestivo, sobre la mortalidad de personas may ores de 60 anos.- The Influence of Age on Mortality in Diabetics.- VI Sesion.- Social Mechanisms in the Inception of Drug Abuse and Addiction.- Author Index.