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Carol Jagger
Public Health
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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 AccessExtending Working Lives: A Systematic Review of Healthy Working Life Expectancy at Age 50
Retirement ages for receipt of state/social pensions are rising in many countries in response to population ageing and increasing life expectancy. However, sickness absence and early retirement for health reas...
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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 AccessMODEM: A comprehensive approach to modelling outcome and costs impacts of interventions for dementia. Protocol paper
The MODEM project (A comprehensive approach to MODelling outcome and costs impacts of interventions for DEMentia) explores how changes in arrangements for the future treatment and care of people living with demen...
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Open AccessThe effect of smoking on the duration of life with and without disability, Belgium 1997–2011
Smoking is the single most important health threat yet there is no consistency as to whether non-smokers experience a compression of years lived with disability compared to (ex-)smokers. The objectives of the ...
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Open AccessThe joint action on healthy life years (JA: EHLEIS)
Life expectancy has been increasing during the last century within the European Union (EU). To measure progress in population health it is no longer sufficient to focus on the duration of life but quality of l...
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Open AccessGender differences in healthy life years within the EU: an exploration of the “health–survival” paradox
To evaluated the female–male health–survival paradox by estimating the contribution of women’s mortality advantage versus women’s disability disadvantage.
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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 AccessControlling hypertension immediately post stroke: a cost utility analysis of a pilot randomised controlled trial
Elevated blood pressure (BP) levels are common following acute stroke. However, there is considerable uncertainty if and when antihypertensive therapy should be initiated.
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The reliability of the Minimum European Health Module
The Minimum European Health Module (MEHM) consists of 3 global questions concerning 3 health domains: self-perceived health, chronic conditions and long-term activity limitation. The objective of this paper is...
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Open AccessCohort differences in disease and disability in the young-old: findings from the MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC-CFAS)
Projections of health and social care need are highly sensitive to assumptions about cohort trends in health and disability. We use a repeated population-based cross-sectional study from the Cambridgeshire cen...
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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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Monitoring population disability: evaluation of a new Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI)
To evaluate a single item instrument, the Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI), to measure long-standing health related activity limitations, against several health indicators: a composite morbidity ind...
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Open AccessRegional differences in multidimensional aspects of health: findings from the MRC cognitive function and ageing study
Differences in mortality and health experience across regions are well recognised and UK government policy aims to address this inequality. Methods combining life expectancy and health have concentrated on spe...
