Implementing the Healthy China Initiative to Ensure the Achievement of the Healthy Life Expectancy Goal during the 14th Five-Year Plan Period [PDF]
The measurement of health has been developed from mortality-based to focus on length of life such as life expectancy, then the focus has been redirected to healthy life expectancy (HLE) globally, one measure reflecting the quality of life.
CHEN Yude, YANG Hui
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This study aimed to examine the efficacy of a 2-week self-administered gentle mechanical skin stimulation on chronic neck and shoulder discomfort. In participants (n = 12) with chronic neck and shoulder discomfort, subjective measures of pain sensation ...
Nobuhiro Watanabe +5 more
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Nativity in the healthy migrant effect: Evidence from Australia
Migrant health constitutes an important public health issue; however, variations in the ‘healthy migrant effect’ among migrants of different nativity are not adequately understood.
Guogui Huang +7 more
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Healthy and unhealthy working-life expectancy: opportunities and challenges [PDF]
Christian Dudel
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Women outweighed men at life expectancy in Bangladesh: does it mean a better quality of life?
Introduction: Men had a higher life expectancy than women until 2000 in Bangladesh. After 2000, statistics showed that women had a higher life expectancy than men.
Md. Zakiul Alam
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Global Trends in Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy
In the known history of humanity, life expectancy scarcely exceeded 30 years, with half of newborns dying before age five, up to the 18th century. However, from the 18th century onward, major epidemics were combatted more efficiently, famines became less frequent, and life expectancy thus began to increase, first in Northwest Europe, then spreading to ...
Cambois, Emmanuelle +2 more
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Most Colorectal Cancer Survivors Live a Large Proportion of Their Remaining Life in Good Health [PDF]
Purpose Colorectal cancer (CRC) diagnosis reduces life expectancy and decreases patients’ well-being. We sought to assess the determinants of health and functional status and estimate the proportion of remaining life that CRC survivors would spend in ...
Ezzati, Majid +5 more
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Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings [PDF]
In theory, improvements in healthy life expectancy should generate increases in the average age of retirement, with little effect on savings rates. In many countries, however, retirement incentives in social security programs prevent retirement ages from
Bloom, David E +3 more
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Dental Status and Compression of Life Expectancy with Disability [PDF]
This study examined whether the number of teeth contributes to the compression of morbidity, measured as a shortening of life expectancy with disability, an extension of healthy life expectancy, and overall life expectancy. A prospective cohort study was
Aida, J +7 more
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Inequality of healthy life expectancy for the Chinese elderly and its trend
In this study, we use long-term follow-up survey data to explore the inequality of the healthy life expectancy among the elderly and the trends of such expectancy among different birth cohorts and at different ages.
Kaishan Jiao
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