Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of Japan: the fastest graying society in the world

Methods for life expectancy and healthy life expectancy uncertainty analysis

Healthy Life Expectancy Is Expanding.

This is a very complex issue given that the issue involves many factors, including genetics, socioeconomic status, culture, and the quality and availability of healthcare services. Furthermore, it is not easy to define many of the above elements (e.g., culture, quality). Even if we could, determining the individual effects of components that we know can influence healthy life expectancy (HLE) (...

Achieving national health objectives: the impact on life expectancy and on healthy life expectancy.

Our study quantifies the impact of achieving specific Healthy People 2010 targets and of eliminating racial/ethnic health disparities on summary measures of health. We used life table methods to calculate gains in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy that would result from achievement of Healthy People 2010 objectives or of current mortality rates in the Asian/Pacific Islander (API) popu...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Healthy life expectancy in 191 countries, 1999.

We describe here the methods used to produce the first estimates of healthy life expectancy (DALE) for 191 countries in 1999. These were based on estimates of the incidence, prevalence, and disability distributions for 109 disease and injury causes by age group, sex, and region of the world, and an analysis of 60 representative health surveys across the world. We used Sullivan's method to compu...