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Carol Jagger
Public Health
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An Analysis of Macro-level Determinants of Geographic Disparities in Health Expectancies
With growing health expectancy inequalities across countries in the world, understanding mechanisms behind these geographic variations has become one of the central policy and research questions. This chapter ...
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Microsimulation of Health Expectancies, Life Course Health, and Health Policy Outcomes
Active life expectancy measures life expectancy and the proportions of remaining life with and without disease or disability. Microsimulation, a useful tool for life course research, estimates active life expe...
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Forecasting Health Expectancy – What the Future Might Hold
Planning health and social care for ageing populations requires accurate forecasts of future need based upon reliable estimates of disease and disability burden, aetiology and progression, and whether years of...
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Conclusions and Future Directions
This collection of research on health expectancy from the REVES network refreshes the knowledge gained since the first REVES book, Determining Health Expectancies, published in 2003. As well as presenting substan...
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Trends in Health Expectancies
This chapter reviews the emergence of the major theories on change over time in population health status, i.e., compression and expansion of morbidity as well as dynamic equilibrium between morbidity and longe...
