This study aimed to analyze the impact of changes in age-related and cause-related mortality on life expectancy at birth in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, in the 1990s. Data were obtained from the Mortality Information System (SIM) for the three-year periods 1989/1990/1991 and 1998/1999/2000. Infant mortality rates and specific mortality rates for individuals > or = 1 year of age were cal...

Birth years ranged from 1862 to 1938; 16 births occurred before 1900, 23 between 1900 and 1909, 19 between 1910 and 1919, 22 between 1920 and 1929, and five between 1930 and 1939. Comparison with national values showed that 70 (82%) of the musicians exceeded their life expectancy; four-fifths of the Black men, three fourths of the White men, and all the women lived longer than expected as shown...

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www.thelancet.com Vol 386 July 11, 2015 115 Recent international trends in life expectancy tell a remarkable story of improvement. In England, life expectancy from birth has doubled since 1840 and, from 1982 to 2012, has increased by about 8 years for men (from 71·3 years to 79·2 years) and 6 years for women (from 77·3 years to 83.0 years). This most recent change equates to more than 6 h of li...

Within the last two centuries every country around the globe has experienced sustained periods of progress in survival, with health transitions beginning as early as the 1770s and as recently as the 1970s.1 Around 1800, when some countries were beginning their transitions, life expectancy at birth was as low as 22.5 years in the indigenous populations of Oceania and as high as 34.8 years in som...

BACKGROUND The United States spends more than any other country on health care. The poor relative performance of the US compared to other high-income countries has attracted attention and raised questions about the performance of the US health system. An important dimension to poor national performance is the large disparities in life expectancy. METHODS We applied a mixed effects Poisson sta...

Costa Rican authorities have finished a national adaptation of the goals of the Hemisphere's Ten-Year Health Plan for the Americas and have formulated a National Health Plan for 1974-1980. This work was coordinated by the Health Sector Planning Unit and was assisted by various multidisciplinary and multi-institutional working groups. The methodology set forth in this article was developed by a ...

Abstract This paper discusses known mathematical equalities and inequalities found within life tables proceeds to identify two new inequalities. The first (theorem 1) is that at any given age x, the sum of mean years lived remaining exceeds expectancy birth when greater than zero less maximum lifespan. second inequality 2) applies entire population shows birth. Illustrations are provided as wel...

introduction: individuals and families' accessible incomes increase as a result of economic development and income inequality reduction. this in turn leads to health promotion in the community. so, this study mainly aimed to survey the effects of unequal income distribution on health in selected members of organization of islamic countries (oic). methods: this descriptive-analytic study collect...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To study differences in total life expectancy and in occupationally active life expectancy in relation to social class and marital status in men classified as healthy as young adults. DESIGN Historical cohort study. SETTING Finland. PARTICIPANTS Altogether 1662 men classified as completely healthy at the time of induction to military service (mean birth year 1923), who had...