Life expectancy and disparity: an international comparison of life table data

Life expectancy and disparity: an international comparison of life table data

OBJECTIVES To determine the contribution of progress in averting premature deaths to the increase in life expectancy and the decline in lifespan variation. DESIGN International comparison of national life table data from the Human Mortality Database. SETTING 40 developed countries and regions, 1840-2009. POPULATION Men and women of all ages. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE We use two summary measu...

Life expectancy--a commentary on this life table variable.

In 1992, I wrote an article on a method of modifying the Decennial US Life Table to accommodate any pattern of excess mortality expressed in terms of excess death rate (EDR), for the specific purpose of calculating the reduced life expectancy, e. I believe this was the first article published in the Journal of Insurance Medicine (JIM) that dealt specifically with life expectancy as an index of ...

Properties of a Stochastic Model for Life Table Data: Exploring Life Expectancy Limits

In this paper we explore the life expectancy limits by based on the stochastic modeling of mortality and applying the first exit or hitting time theory of a stochastic process. The main assumption is that the health state or the “vitality”, according to Strehler and Mildvan, of an individual is a stochastic variable and thus it was introduced and applied a first exit time density function to mo...

Self-Assessed Health Expectancy Among Older Asians: A Comparison of Sullivan and Multistate Life Table Methods

The Population Studies Center (PSC) at the University of Michigan is one of the oldest population centers in the United States. Established in 1961 with a grant from the Ford Foundation, the Center has a rich history as the main workplace for an interdisciplinary community of scholars in the field of population studies. PSC disseminates Research Reports in several series. All are prepublication...

Methods for life expectancy and healthy life expectancy uncertainty analysis