The Relationship and Trends of Socio-Demographic Index, Healthy Life Expectancy and Life Expectancy in China

Methods for life expectancy and healthy life expectancy uncertainty analysis

Trends in senescent life expectancy.

The distinction between senescent and non-senescent mortality proves to be very valuable for describing and analysing age patterns of death rates. Unfortunately, standard methods for estimating these mortality components are lacking. The first part of this paper discusses alternative methods for estimating background and senescent mortality among adults and proposes a simple approach based on d...

Obesity and Trends in Life Expectancy

Background. Increasing levels of obesity over recent decades have been expected to lead to an epidemic of diabetes and a subsequent reduction in life expectancy, but instead all-cause and cardiovascular-specific mortality rates have decreased steadily in most developed countries and life expectancy has increased. Methods. This paper suggests several factors that may be masking the effects of ob...

Infant mortality and life expectancy in China

BACKGROUND It is reported that the infant mortality (IM) rate decreased rapidly in China and the life expectancy (LE) also had a high increase. Our objective was to determine the health status of the Chinese population by investigating IM and LE and their inter-relationship. MATERIAL AND METHODS Based on a literature review on the history and current status of IM and LE in China and other maj...

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) (...