Life Expectancy
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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...

Health reform in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Oct 2009 In the two decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, former communist countries in Europe have pursued wide-ranging changes to their health systems. We describe three key aspects of these changes-an almost universal switch to health insurance ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Life Expectancy'

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
• European health systems face scrutiny in US debate. 22 Oct 2009
• Life expectancy differs by 30 years between richest and poorest countries, report shows. 5 Oct 2009
• Meeting the challenge of population ageing. 3 Oct 2009
• Ageing populations: the challenges ahead. Oct 2009
• Health reform in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Oct 2009
• Straight talk with...Christopher Murray. 29 Sep 2009
• Is there more to aging than mitochondrial DNA and reactive oxygen species? 29 Sep 2009
• Cerebral palsy and aging. 29 Sep 2009
• Cost effectiveness of enoxaparin in acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: the ExTRACT-TIMI 25 (Enoxaparin and Thrombolysis Reperfusion for Acute Myocardial Infarction Treatment-Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction 25) study. 27 Sep 2009
• Life and death during the Great Depression. 26 Sep 2009
• [Which exams are appropriate for the elderly patient? "65 year plus check-up"] 22 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
• Comparisons between geographies of mortality and deprivation from the 1900s and 2001: spatial analysis of census and mortality statistics. 8 Sep 2009
• Hepatitis C: Should antiviral therapy be offered to elderly patients? 30 Aug 2009
• Retirement--choice or necessity? 30 Aug 2009
• Cost-effectiveness of population-based BRCA1/2 testing and ovarian cancer prevention for Ashkenazi Jews: a call for dialogue. 30 Aug 2009
• Zimbabwe queues. 30 Aug 2009
• Case study. Dirty blood. Commentary. 30 Aug 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