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Open AccessAre Religiosity and Spirituality Related to Self-Reported Health Expectancy? An Analysis of the European Values Survey
Research on religiosity and health has generally focussed on the United States, and outcomes of health or mortality but not both. Using the European Values Survey 2008, we examined cross-sectional associations...
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Open AccessThe effects of single and a combination of determinants of anaemia in the very old: results from the TULIPS consortium
Nutritional deficiencies, renal impairment and chronic inflammation are commonly mentioned determinants of anaemia. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of these determinants, singly and in com...
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Does Religious Activity Distinguish the Mortality Experiences of Older Taiwanese? An Analysis Using Eighteen Years of Follow-Up Data
This paper extends investigation of religiosity and longevity to Taiwan using a 1989 survey: N = 3849, aged 60+, with 18 years of follow-up. Religious activity is measured as worship and performance of rituals. A...
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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...
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Open AccessCapability and dependency in the Newcastle 85+ cohort study. Projections of future care needs
Little is known of the capabilities of the oldest old, the fastest growing age group in the population. We aimed to estimate capability and dependency in a cohort of 85 year olds and to project future demand f...
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Gender gaps in life expectancy and expected years with activity limitations at age 50 in the European Union: associations with macro-level structural indicators
Women generally live longer than men, but women’s longer lives are not necessarily healthy lives. The aim of this article is to describe the pattern of gender differences in expected years with and without act...
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Open AccessEngaging the oldest old in research: lessons from the Newcastle 85+ study
Those aged 85 and over, the oldest old, are now the fastest growing sector of the population. Information on their health is essential to inform future planning; however, there is a paucity of up-to-date informat...
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Open AccessThe Newcastle 85+ study: biological, clinical and psychosocial factors associated with healthy ageing: study protocol
The UK, like other developed countries, is experiencing a marked change in the age structure of its population characterised by increasing life expectancy and continuing growth in the older fraction of the pop...
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Self-rated health status as a predictor of death, functional and cognitive impairment: a longitudinal cohort study
Understanding the prognostic capacity of a simple measure of self-rated health (SRH) by older people becomes increasingly important as the population ages. SRH has been shown to predict survival, functional st...
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Can We Live Longer, Healthier Lives?
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Disability-free life expectancy of older French people: gender and education differentials from the PAQUID cohort
In countries with low mortality rates, the quality of the years of life is more important to consider than total life expectancy (TLE). Disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) is one of the most relevant indica...
