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Showing 1 to 20 of 384 for “"Life Expectancy"”.
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LIFE EXPECTANCY
… into an insurance company and wants to purchase life insurance, the insurance company has to consider an important question: How long will this client live? His date of death is not exactly predictable, so the insurer does not know exactly when the life insurance benefits will be payable. …
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Analysis of the Impact of Air Pollutants, PM2.5 and O3, on Life Expectancy and Quality Adjusted Life-Expectancy in Canada
… infarction (AMI). The outcome measures are life expectancy and quality-adjusted life years. The methodologies used include: life tables, discounting, concentration-response function (CRF), quality of life scores and Monte Carlo simulation. The highest estimates of impact due to ozone and …
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Three studies on life expectancy and lifespan inequality
While life expectancy is a key indicator in public health and demography, it may obscure unequal experiences of different population groups. By contrast, lifespan inequality captures variations in age at death, offering a broader view of health disparities. Focusing on lifespan inequality enables …
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Life Expectancy as a Development Indicator: Liaoning Province, China, 2000
… and regions has led in recent years to the proliferation of numerous development indicators. Emerging from conventional one-dimensional economic, social, and health indicators, the Human Development Index (HDI) as a composite indicator, has drawn the attention of researchers and administrators …
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The Effect of Life Expectancy On Economic Growth: Across Time and Space
… and results. I obtain cross-country estimates of life expectancy, my proxy for health. I employ fixed effects estimation to research the effect of health improvements across time and space. My results indicate an increase in life expectancy by one percentage point increases GDP per capita by 1.34 …
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Perception of Life Expectancy and Patterns of Health-Promoting Lifestyles of Young Adults
… of health promotion is to enhance and prolong life. It has been found that the healthier lifestyle one leads, the longer one will live. To help individuals adopt healthier lifestyles, health care providers need to understand what factors influence the individual's choices related to lifestyle. …
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Secular Trends in Life Expectancy by Diet Status Among Never Smoking Seventh-day Adventists
<p>To evaluate how life expectancy changed by age and secular time from 1960 through 1988, two cohort studies, the Adventist Mortality Study (AMS, 1960-1985, n = 27,530) and the Adventist Health Study (AHS, 1976-1988, n = 34,192) were combined. The life expectancy of omnivores was compared to …
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The impact of voltage unbalance and regulation on the life expectancy of LV induction machines
… conditions on a typical rural feeder on the lifespan of induction machines. There are various definitions of voltage unbalance by NEMA, the IEC and the IEEE. The IEC definition is used in this research report, it is known as the true definition and incorporates both magnitude and phase …
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The durability of timber buildings: a decay prediction model to estimate the life expectancy of timber structures
… the natural hazards affecting the safety and the life-expectancy of timber buildings. From an all encompassing point of view, the life-expectancy of timber buildings was predicted considering the effects of a fungal attack on the durability of a timber structural element. The prediction of …
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TRENDS IN LIFE EXPECTANCY AND MORTALITY: A COMPARISON OF HISPANICS AND NON-HISPANICS IN THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES, 1990 TO 2010
… The study had three specific aims: 1) estimate life expectancy for Hispanics and non-Hispanics, 2) decompose life expectancy by cause-specific mortality, and 3) develop cohort and cause-specific mortality rates from 1990 to 2010. Analyses included evaluation, adjustment and correction of …
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An historical demographic investigation into mortality in three historical birth cohorts born between 1837 and 1900 in Mamre, with special reference to life expectancy
… rates, quinquennial mortality rates and life expectancies of the three cohorts. Issues related to the quality of data – non-registration and follow-up - were investigated. Birth registration was best for the 1837-46 cohort for males and females, with the 1900-1909 registration being next …
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Naděje dožití bez demence v Evropě
Dementia-free life expectancy in Europe Abstract Population ageing is associated with a growing number of people living with dementia. Although improvements in healthcare have led to increases in life expectancy at birth, it remains unclear to what extent this also means longer healthy lives. This …
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Exhuming insights: what burial records can tell us about the aged poor and emerging welfare provision in Limerick City, 1875 to 1925
… analysis of burial records with a focus on life expectancy. It then progresses to an exploration of the emerging welfare state and social policy initiatives, with the evolving recognition of old age and older people as a welfare category providing the contextual framing. It specifically …
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Simulation and sensitivity analysis of the choice of open interval, the methods of open interval, the methods of estimating life expectancy, completeness and 6 in the SEG method of estimating mortality
… age as well as well as methods of estimating life expectancy. completeness and 6. This task is accomplished by starting with a base population with known mortality then applying random errors in completeness. age misstatement and net migration to it to generate numerous datasets consisting of …
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Essays on health and healthcare economics
… estimates of the relationship between income and life expectancy at the national level than was feasible in prior work. We then construct new local area (county and metro area) estimates of life expectancy by income group and identify factors that are associated with higher levels of life …
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Nutrition Education and Community Advocacy at Marin Health and Human Services
… that all Marin neighborhoods look the same. The life expectancy in Ross is over 88 years. Less than 10 miles away in Hamilton Novato, the life expectancy is 75 years. That is a 13 year difference in life expectancy, roughly equivalent to the difference between living in the United States and …
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Pflegebedürftigkeitsfreie Lebenserwartung in Deutschland : ein Beitrag zur Debatte um die Kompression von Morbidität
… the relationship between health and lengthening life is essential. In addition, this need implies an entitlement to specific benefits within the German welfare system. Research on long-term care utilization can show prospects for health-related services in the course of demographic aging. …
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Mortality: modelling, socio-economic differences and basis risk
… world experienced a persistent increase in life expectancy. Although past trends suggests that life expectancy will continue to increase, there is considerable uncertainty surrounding the future evolution of mortality. In addition, past mortality improvements have not been shared equally …
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HOW DOES INCREASING THE FULL BENEFIT AGE OF SOCIAL SECURITY AFFECT FACTORY WORKERS’ PLANS TO RETIRE?
… 65 to 67 for those born after 1960. Increased life expectancy has been the main argument for why it is thought that people should work longer. However, research indicates that low income workers have seen little increase in life expectancy. The purpose of this research was to explore the …
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