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The impact of stomach cancer mortality on life expectancy at birth: a decomposition analysis in east Asian countries from 1990 to 2019
From 1990 to 2019, stomach cancer posed a significant health burden in East Asia. The impact of stomach cancer deaths on life expectancy at birth in...
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Heterogeneity in Excess Mortality and Its Impact on Loss of Life Expectancy due to COVID-19: Evidence from Mexico
The new coronavirus (COVID-19) is having a major impact on mortality and survival in most countries of the world, with Mexico being one of...
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Multi-country clustering-based forecasting of healthy life expectancy
Healthy life expectancy (HLE) is an indicator that measures the number of years individuals at a given age are expected to live free of disease or...
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Life Expectancy with and Without Diabetics Among Elderly in Kerala
Kerala, the socially and demographically most advanced state of India, is the diabetic hub of south Asia. This study explores the prevalence of...
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Inequality Crossroads of Mortality: Socioeconomic Disparities in Life Expectancy and Life Span in Mexico Between 1990 and 2015
The Mexican health system has been characterized by a mixture of progress and pitfalls, resulting in persistent inequalities. The main causes of...
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Loss of life expectancy due to respiratory infectious diseases: findings from the global burden of disease study in 195 countries and territories 1990–2017
Understanding of the patterns of and changes in mortality from respiratory infectious diseases (RID) and its contribution to loss of life expectancy...
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On the evolution of the gender gap in life expectancy at normal retirement age for OECD countries
Population aging is evolving at different rates across countries and over time, and it represents a long-term challenge for both the sustainability...
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Decomposing the differences in healthy life expectancy between migrants and natives: the ‘healthy migrant effect’ and its age variations in Australia
Whether the ‘healthy migrant effect’ exhibits different patterns in mortality and morbidity and how such patterns change during the life course have...
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Life Expectancy and Different Parameter Identification in Chinese Retirement Plan
Under the current statutory retirement age of 60 for male employees, 50 for female workers and 55 for female cadres, pension annuity divisors at...
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The relay for human longevity: country-specific contributions to the increase of the best-practice life expectancy
This study investigates the long-term dynamics of longevity by taking into account the specific contribution of each country, and how this has...
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Well-Being Adjusted Health Expectancy: A New Summary Measure of Population Health
We propose a new summary measure of population health (SMPH), the well-being-adjusted health expectancy (WAHE). WAHE belongs to a subgroup of...
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Life, Longevity, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Role of Disability in Sha** Racial and Sex Disparities in Living a Long and Happy Life
Disability-free life expectancy is a common measure used by demographers to gauge quantity and quality of life. Yet, the extent to which positive...
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Life Expectancy, Air Pollution, and Socioeconomic Factors: A Multivariate Time-Series Analysis of Bei**g City, China
This paper investigated the dynamic relationship between ife expectancy (LE) and its inflencing factors including, health care, socioeconomic, and...
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Vulnerability and Resilience After Partner Loss Through Divorce and Bereavement: Contributions of the LIVES ‘Intimate partner loss study’
Critical life events, such as partner loss, in the second half of life pose a significant threat to well-being. Divorce and bereavement have negative...
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Inequality in length of life in India: an empirical analysis
We examine the trends in inequality in length of life in India and fifteen of its selected states during the last three decades. We also estimate the...
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Inaction on Climate Change Projected to Reduce European Life Expectancy
Climate change-related excess mortality estimates clearly demonstrate a dramatic impact on public health and human mortality. However, life...
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The Evolution of the Later Years of Life
People have not lived so long before. People are living longer in societies designed for shorter lives. So, older people must design their last 20 or...
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Loss of a Life Partner: Self-Isolation in Urban Kolkata
With the advancement of medical sciences and increase in life expectancy, discussions on death have become a rarity in modern societies. Most...
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Demographic ageing, health status and life quality of the elderly in Russia
Within the context of the national policy on the elderly, the paper presents trends in demographic ageing, health and life quality of the elderly in...
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Long Life Learning
Later life is the ultimate step in human development which makes the difference between growing old and living long. Individuals have no personal...