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Implementing the Healthy China Initiative to Ensure the Achievement of the Healthy Life Expectancy Goal during the 14th Five-Year Plan Period [PDF]

open access: yesZhongguo quanke yixue, 2023
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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Effects of gentle mechanical skin stimulation on subjective symptoms and joint range of motions in people with chronic neck and shoulder discomfort

open access: yesJournal of Physiological Sciences, 2023
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

open access: yesSSM: Population Health, 2023
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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Women outweighed men at life expectancy in Bangladesh: does it mean a better quality of life?

open access: yesHeliyon, 2021
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

open access: yes, 2023
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]

open access: yes, 2012
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]

open access: yes, 2006
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]

open access: yes, 2017
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

open access: yesThe Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2019
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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