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Immigration and improvements in American life expectancy
SSM: Population Health, 2021 Despite the immigrant mortality advantage and the increasing share of the population born abroad, relatively little is known about how immigration has impacted trends in US life expectancy.
Arun S. Hendi, Jessica Y. Ho
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Life Expectancy after Bariatric Surgery in the Swedish Obese Subjects Study.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2020 BACKGROUND Obesity shortens life expectancy. Bariatric surgery is known to reduce the long-term relative risk of death, but its effect on life expectancy is unclear.
L. Carlsson +7 more
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Death rates at specific life stages mold the sex gap in life expectancy
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021 Significance Female life expectancy exceeds male life expectancy. Males at ages 15 to 40 die at rates that are often three times female levels, but this excess mortality is not the main cause of the life expectancy gap.
V. Zarulli, Ilya Kashnitsky, J. Vaupel
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim +8 more
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Inequality of healthy life expectancy for the Chinese elderly and its trend
The 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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Study of the Role of Youth Mortality in Life Expectancy Differences in Provinces of Iran, 2016 [PDF]
تحقیقات نظام سلامت, 2023 Background: Considering the significant impact of youth deaths on life expectancy at birth and also the significant differences in such deaths at the provincial level, in this study, after estimating life expectancy at the national and provincial levels,
Mohammad Sasanipour, Saeedeh Shahbazin
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Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care [PDF]
, 2011 This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries inhealth outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007.
Badi H. Baltagi +2 more
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The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 2021 Background As society ages, promoting the health of the extra years of life is of paramount importance for health, social care and pension provision. Increases in life expectancy in the UK and elsewhere have slowed in recent years, but the reasons for ...
Claire E. Welsh, F. Matthews, C. Jagger
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song +15 more
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Growing Disparities in Life Expectancy [PDF]
, 2008 [Excerpt] In a continuation of long-term trends, life expectancy has been steadily increasing in the United States for the past several decades. Accompanying the recent increases, however, is a growing disparity in life expectancy between individuals ...
Manchester, Joyce, Topoleski, Julie
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