BACKGROUND While Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic have seen impressive gains in life expectancy in the 1990s, Romania has not. In contrast with the other countries, there has been very little research on the causes of the pattern of mortality seen in Romania. OBJECTIVES To describe the trends in life expectancy at birth in Romania after the political transition in 1989 and to evaluate ...

Life expectancy data by race and gender for Arkansas show whites having longer average life expectancies at birth than blacks. Racial differences in life expectancy have been found to be due to higher mortality rates for blacks due to their tendency to fall into high-risk groups. Cause-specific mortality rates by race and gender for Arkansans 25 years and older were calculated for the ten leadi...

www.thelancet.com Published online February 21, 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30314-8 1 Forecasting life expectancy by age and sex is broadly used for research and planning of health sevices, social services, pensions, and economics, and has been developed at the national and multicountry levels. The basic idea for predicting life expectancy is closely related to the concept of e...

(WHO) annually reports infant mortality rates (IMR), child mortality rates, adult mortality rates, average life expectancies, and healthy life expectan-cies for all 191 member states. 1 2 IMR correlates highly with HALE across these 191 member states in 2000 (r=0.93). Reidpath and Allotey argue that IMR is an acceptable proxy measure of population health because of this high correlation. 3 Insp...

background: predicting life expectancy is an important component of public health, in that, it may affect policy making in fields such as social security and medical care., to estimate the life expectancy and the average years of life lost (ayll) of the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids)-infected population, compared with that of the general population,...

OBJECTIVE Prevalence of type 1 diabetes (T1D) disease is increasing worldwide. We aim to test correlation of T1D prevalence to the reduced natural selection measured by Biological State Index (Ibs). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Country-specific estimates of T1D prevalence, life expectancy, obesity prevalence rate, urbanization rates, per capita sugars consumption and per capita gross domestic p...

Today, a woman has an excellent chance of surviving well into her 80s and, for those who survive to age 85 years, the remaining average life expectancy is an additional 6 years. Therefore, most women who reach age 85 can expect to pass age 90 (1). Life expectancy varies throughout the lifespan. The gap between men and women is actually largest at younger ages and gets smaller with increasing ag...

BACKGROUND Health inequalities have widened within and between many European countries over recent decades, but Europe-wide sub-national trends have been largely overlooked. For regions across the European Union (EU), we assess how geographical inequalities (i.e., between regions) and sociospatial inequalities (i.e., between regions grouped by an area-level measure of average household income) ...

Life expectancy at birth has increased steadily since 1900 to a record 78.8 years in 2013. But differences in life expectancy between the white and black populations still exist, despite a decrease in the life expectancy gap from 5.9 years in 1999 to 3.6 years in 2013. Differences in the change over time in the leading causes of death for the black and white populations have contributed to this...

Health as a prerequisite to perform other activities is considered as both consumption and capital commodity. Views on health production may differ. Sometimes, health is assumed as natural endowment, at times, it is generated by the personal efforts, and sometimes physicians and other health providers provide it. This paper aims to identify the factors affecting the production of health. To ana...