Description: Discusses changes that the Experience Committees of the Society are making to their processes to improve timeliness and quality of data.

Description: This article describes the activities and results of an SOA Task Force on Expansion of Mortality and Morbidity Statistics which was formed to review the mortality and morbidity research undertaken and the statistics published outside the recognized actuarial organizations.

Description: Article from The Actuary, September 1989 – Volume 23, No. 8. An editorial regarding increases in the amount of reported AIDS cases.

Description: This is a review of the publication entitled 'Medicare: Health Insurance for the Aged, 1969: Geographic Indices of Reimbursement by State and County.' It is of value to health actuaries because it contains information as to the variation in health insurance claim costs by geographical areas within the United States.

Description: This article announces the selection of a research team for a new catastophic health claims database project initiated by the Health Section and the Society of Actuaries. This articles gives a brief description of the project.

Description: This article discusses the problems in estimating the prevalence of HIV infection.

Description: This aticle discusses LTD claims experience and the effects of Social Security offsets and pre-existing clauses.

Description: This article is a review and summary of the final volume in the series of Vital and Health Statistics Monographs initiated by the late Mortimer Spiegelman, FSA, in 1958. This final volume analyzes mortality and morbidity trends since the beginning of the century.

Description: a review of a paper by R. H. Daw, F.I.A. entitled “Smallpox and the Double Decrement Table: a piece of actuarial prehistory.”

Description: This article provides an analysis of the AIDS case data collected and made available by the Centers for Disease Control. The CDC data base is at the individual level and includes age at diagnosis, date of diagnosis, sex, sexual preference, locale, type of infection transmission, etc.