Changing life expectancy throughout history

Changing mortality and average cohort life expectancy

Period life expectancy varies with changes in mortality, and should not be confused with the life expectancy of those alive during that period. Given past and likely future mortality changes, a recent debate has arisen on the usefulness of the period life expectancy as the leading measure of survivorship. An alternative aggregate measure of period mortality which has been seen as less sensitive...

Changing life expectancy in Romania after the transition.

BACKGROUND While Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic have seen impressive gains in life expectancy in the 1990s, Romania has not. In contrast with the other countries, there has been very little research on the causes of the pattern of mortality seen in Romania. OBJECTIVES To describe the trends in life expectancy at birth in Romania after the political transition in 1989 and to evaluate ...

Life Expectancy

Methods for life expectancy and healthy life expectancy uncertainty analysis

The effect of life expectancy on aggression and generativity: a life history perspective.

Following a model that is inclusive of both dispositional and situational influences on life-history behaviors and attitudes, the effect of life expectancies on aggression and generativity was examined. Consistent with the hypotheses it was found that shorter life expectancies led to an increase in the desire to aggress and a decrease in the desire to engage in generative behaviors. The results...