Life Expectancy - Trends
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Mortality among residents of shelters, rooming houses, and hotels in Canada: 11 year follow-up study.

24 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To examine mortality in a representative nationwide sample of homeless and marginally housed people living in shelters, rooming houses, and hotels. DESIGN: Follow-up study. SETTING: Canada 1991-2001. PARTICIPANTS: 15 100 homeless and ... Read more...

Ageing populations: the challenges ahead.

Oct 2009 If the pace of increase in life expectancy in developed countries over the past two centuries continues through the 21st century, most babies born since 2000 in France, Germany, Italy, the UK, the USA, Canada, Japan, and other countries with long ... Read more...

Life and death during the Great Depression.

26 Sep 2009 Recent events highlight the importance of examining the impact of economic downturns on population health. The Great Depression of the 1930s was the most important economic downturn in the U.S. in the twentieth century. We used historical life ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Life Expectancy - Trends'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Mortality among residents of shelters, rooming houses, and hotels in Canada: 11 year follow-up study. 24 Oct 2009
• Life expectancy differs by 30 years between richest and poorest countries, report shows. 5 Oct 2009
• Ageing populations: the challenges ahead. Oct 2009
• Life and death during the Great Depression. 26 Sep 2009
• Cystic fibrosis. 14 Sep 2009
• Life expectancy in relation to cardiovascular risk factors: 38 year follow-up of 19,000 men in the Whitehall study. 14 Sep 2009
• Retirement--choice or necessity? 30 Aug 2009
• Life-expectancy gains from pharmaceutical drugs: a critical appraisal of the literature. 30 Jul 2009
• Change in disability-free life expectancy for Americans 70-years-old and older. 30 Jul 2009
• What is the impact of missing Indigenous status on mortality estimates? An assessment using record linkage in Western Australia. 30 Jul 2009
• [Boom in geriatric surgery. Eliminating fear of the knife in the elderly] 21 Jul 2009
• The impact of recession on the health of rural citizens in British Columbia, Canada. 13 Jul 2009
• Life expectancy in England between the rich and poor widens for both men and women. 7 Jul 2009
• [Normalisation of expected years of life lost (EYLL)] 30 May 2009
• Biracial population study of mortality in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease. 30 May 2009
• The bridge-builders. 29 Apr 2009
• Medical demography and epidemiology: dizygotic twins. 15 Mar 2009
• Health-related quality of life, quality-adjusted life years, and quality-adjusted life expectancy in new york city from 1995 to 2006. 11 Mar 2009
• Lack of coordination between health policy and medical education: a contributing factor to the resignation of specialist trainees in Fiji? 11 Mar 2009
• Annual expenditures for nursing home care: private and public payer price growth, 1977 to 2004. 27 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Life Expectancy'

Definition: A figure representing the number of years, based on known statistics, to which any person of a given age may reasonably expect to live.

Descriptor UI: D008017

Alternative terms: Life Expectancy; Expectancies, Life; Expectancy, Life; Life Expectancies; Life Extension;

Related Mesh Headings: Longevity;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; trends;

Tree Number: E05.318.308.985.450; L01.280.975.450; N01.224.935.464; N06.850.505.400.975.450; N06.850.520.308.985.450;

History Note: was in Cat H & N 1979-81; was in Cat N only 1968-78; was in Cat G only 1967; was in Cat G & I 1963-66

Technical Notes: IM for human, NIM for animal; consider also LONGEVITY