District-Level Life Expectancy in Germany

Life expectancy at birth at the local level in Ontario.

ognized indicator of population health. Estimates have been reported for centuries, during which the methods of life table derivation have been refined and incorporated as one of a demographer’s most useful tools. Increasingly, health planners and epidemiologists are asked to produce local level health status reports. However, life expectancy has frequently disappeared from such reports (in Ont...

Life Expectancy

Life expectancy in keratoconus.

It is observed that few patients over the age of 60 regularly attend the keratoconus clinic at Moorfields Eye Hospital. The hypothesis that patients with keratoconus have a shorter life expectancy owing to underlying connective tissue related disease was tested. From patient records a sample of 337 keratoconus patients aged at least 40 years by 1991 were identified, of which 279 were living, 13...

Information Technology and Life Expectancy: A Country-Level Analysis

Do countries with higher IT spending have higher life expectancy? Recent policy debate on healthcare in the United States has focused on the role of IT in reducing costs and improving healthcare access and quality. An implicit assumption in this debate has been that greater infusion of IT into healthcare will lead to better health outcomes. We investigate the validity of this assumption by exam...

Methods for life expectancy and healthy life expectancy uncertainty analysis