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Economic Aging and Demographic Change [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
This paper presents a generalised model of overlapping generations with economic ageing of households. Economic age is defined as a set of personal attributes such as earnings potential and tastes that are characteristic of a person’s position in the life-cycle.
Grafenhofer, Dominik   +3 more
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PERSPECTIVES OVER THE ECONOMIC TRANSITION AND DEMOGRAPHIC AGING IN EASTERN EUROPE [PDF]

open access: yesAnalele Universităţii din Oradea: Seria Geografie, 2022
The countries of Eastern Europe represent a particular case from the demographic and economic point of view, as their demographic transition overlapped the economic development process.
Ionel-Calin MICLE   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Economic and demographic assumptions of the public pension insurance system functioning [PDF]

open access: yesMegatrend Revija, 2016
The demographic transition is characterized by a decline in birth rates and fertility on the one hand, and an intense increase in the number of old people on the other hand.
Đukić Gordana
doaj   +1 more source

Building China’s Eldercare Market: The Imperatives of Capital Accumulation and Social Stability

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2022
The paper investigates China’s effort to create an eldercare market to shed light on how China’s economic reform entailed the creation of new institutions (e.g., eldercare market including eldercare labour market) and the reconfiguration of existing ...
Feng Xu
doaj   +1 more source

Prescription Rates, Polypharmacy and Prescriber Variability in Swiss General Practice—A Cross-Sectional Database Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Purpose: The frequency of medication prescribing and polypharmacy has increased in recent years in different settings, including Swiss general practice. We aimed to describe patient age- and sex-specific rates of polypharmacy and of prescriptions of the ...
Yael Rachamin   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The aging population in Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesEinstein (São Paulo), 2008
Brazil is currently in an advanced stage of both the mortality andfertility transitions, which allows one to confi dently forecast the agedistribution and population size over the next four decades.
Fabio Nasri
doaj  

Ageing, demographics, and heart failure [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Heart Journal Supplements, 2019
Abstract Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical syndrome resulting from structural or functional cardiac disorders. In the developed world, HF is primarily a disorder of the elderly. It is one that is accompanied by many non-cardiac comorbidities that affect treatments given, the patient’s response and treatment tolerance and outcomes.
openaire   +2 more sources

Pancreatic cancer challenge in 52 Asian countries: age-centric insights and the role of modifiable risk factors (1990-2019)

open access: yesFrontiers in Oncology, 2023
BackgroundPancreatic cancer is renowned for its elevated incidence and mortality rates on a global scale. The disease burden of pancreatic cancer is anticipated to increase, particularly in Asia, due to its vast and rapidly aging population.MethodsData ...
Xin Xiang   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Demographic aspects of ageing

open access: yesAnnals of Human Biology, 1989
The first part of this paper examines future changes in the age structure of the population of England and Wales which are likely to occur as a result of past and future changes in fertility and mortality. These changes in fertility and mortality are examined in some detail. Different methods of projecting future changes in mortality are discussed.
openaire   +2 more sources

Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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