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A New Method for Correcting Underestimation of Disabled Life Expectancy and Application to the Chinese-Oldest Old Article (PDF Available) in Demography 41(2):335-61 · June 2004 with 122 Reads
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Women underestimate their length of life by nearly 5 years within the age interval 60–90 years when compared with the actual life expectancy, while men's underestimation is lower. These results are consistent with those previously reported for Germany [ 10 ] and for France [ 11 ], and also with those reported in [ 8 ], although these three ...
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Nov 05, 2019· According to public health researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Native Hawaiians in Hawaiʻi have a shorter life expectancy compared with other racial/ethnic populations in the state. New findings, published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, show they also spend fewer years in good health than other groups.. Yanyan Wu, lead author of the study and an associate ...
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Limited information exists about the consequences of hypertension during adulthood on residual life expectancy with cardiovascular disease. We aimed to analyze the life course of people with high blood pressure levels at age 50 in terms of total life expectancy and life expectancy with and without cardiovascular disease compared with normotensives.
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Underestimation of Disabled Life Expectancy 337 been relatively few studies of healthy life expectancy in Asian countries, especially on Chinese active/disabled life expectancy. Most of these few studies used cross-sectional data from survey samples; none of the previous Chinese studies on active/disabled life
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2 in 3 pre-retiree men underestimate the life expectancy of the average 65-year-old man. Of that group, 42 percent underestimate average life expectancy by 5 years or more. Roughly half of pre-retiree females underestimate the life expectancy of the average 65-year-old woman. (SOA, 2011) Men appear to underestimate longevity by less than do women.
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Mortality underestimation would in turn imply that life expectancy is even lower in America 5, and hence further magnify the findings of the above analysis on mortality disadvantage in America 5. A secondary source of bias for Asians may be back-migration of first-generation immigrants, who return to their home countries due to illness.
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Table 2 summarizes how life expectancy at age 30 (e 30) increased during the 20 years of observation and how it varied by education group in the three countries.For the total populations, e 30 increased by 4.4 years in Italy, 3.6 years in Denmark, and 2.8 years in the USA. In all populations, there was a clear gradient in e 30 by level of education.
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Global comparative assessments of life expectancy: the impact of migration with reference to Australia Andrew Page a, Stephen Begg a, Richard Taylor a, Alan D Lopez a Introduction. In recent international league tables of life expectancy in countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Australia is ranked among the top five, behind countries ...
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Smoking, low income, and high bodyweight are quantitatively important entry points for policies to reduce educational inequalities in life expectancy in most European countries, but priorities differ between countries. A substantial reduction of inequalities in life expectancy requires policy actions on a broad range of health determinants.
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T and healthcare, and to assess the effect of late diagnosis on life expectancy. Methods:A stochastic computer simulation model of HIV infection and the effect of ART was used to estimate life expectancy and determine the distribution of potential lifetime outcomes of an MSM, aged 30 years, who becomes HIV positive in 2010. The effect of altering the diagnosis rate was investigated. Results ...
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May 28, 2017· Life expectancy at birth for both sexes combined was 79.1 years overall, but differed by 20.1 years between the counties with the lowest and highest life expectancy, this …
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Changes in period life expectancy (PLE), tempo-adjusted life expectancy (LE*), cross-sectional average length of life (CAL), and mean age at death (MAD) relative to 2009 in selected countries, women, 2009–2015. a Belgium. b France. c The Netherlands. d UK.
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Social underestimation is especially true for men and young people. ... The present study examines perceptions of the contribution of these various factors to life expectancy within the community at large. Method. American and British community respondents (N = 502) ...
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The underestimation of life expectancy obtained using period life tables was largely a result of a decline in infant mortality over time. Estimates of life expectancy obtained using period life tables will match cohort life tables only when there has been no change in mortality over time, an extremely unlikely scenario.
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Jul 10, 2018· Because the life expectancy in one CSA was more than three standard deviations greater than the overall mean life expectancy, it was excluded from analysis. The resulting analytic sample included 54 distinct communities. The median life expectancy for the 54 CSAs was 72.8 years, ranging from a low of 64 years to a high of 88 years.
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Jul 01, 2002· The specifically reduced life expectancy for Indigenous Australians with ID may primarily be indicative of the decreased survival experienced by the indigenous population in general . By the time they reach middle-age, individuals with ID have a greater tendency toward obesity and decreased physical fitness compared with the general population ...
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These differences could result in the underestimation or overestima tion of life expectancy (see Technical Notes). Once population estimates based on the 2000 census are available, we will publish another report presenting revised life expectancy estimates. Data from the Medicare program are used to calculate probabilities of
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Jan 12, 2020· "Underestimation of life expectancy, together with having too short a planning horizon, can result in inadequate provision for retirement needs," the report concludes.
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Objective : To estimate the life expectancy in a representative sample of men who have never smoked and of those who have smoked all their adult lives. Design : 15 year follow up of a large representative cohort of British men in the British regional heart study and use of national mortality statistics for 1992. Subjects : 7735 middle aged British men aged 40–59 at the time of screening ...
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So, the average life expectancy of a combat soldier in Vietnam. would be to live almost 46 more years (to age 70). And, that's a. gross underestimation (i.e. in reality, it would be considerably ...
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For those requiring a life plan, an underestimation of remaining years of life can have disasterous consequences. To determine such an estimate experts rely in part upon , race and tobacco-use specific birth cohort life tables.
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It bothered me so much that after 20 years as an actuary I wrote a PhD about it. Period average life expectancy is misleading in the worst way - it leads to underestimation of how long we are going to live. This matters to individuals and in public policy. The problem is in the name - "life expectancy" is not necessarily the lifespan we should ...
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With life expectancy rates on the rise, more than half of retirees and pre-retirees underestimate the age to which a person of his or her age and gender can expect to live, which can have significant implications on retirement planning, according to a new report from the Society of Actuaries (SOA).
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A New Method for Correcting Underestimation of Disabled Life Expectancy and Application to the Chinese-Oldest Old
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ZIP Codes in the Bay Area vary in population from over 10,000 residents to less than 20 residents. Traditional life expectancy estimation (like the one used for the regional- and county-level Vital Signs estimates) cannot be used because they are highly inaccurate for small populations and may result in over/underestimation of life expectancy.
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expectancy at younger ages and an underestimation of life expectancy at older ages, with the bias being greater among more severely injured persons. While calculation of SMRs grouped by age at injury has revealed an important trend toward decreasing SMR with
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This will result in an overestimation of life expectancy for persons in their 60s but an underestimation of life expectancy for persons in their 80s when a single SMR is used for all ages over 60 ...
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Life expectancy is projected to increase in all 35 countries with a probability of at least 65% for women and 85% for men. There is a 90% probability that life expectancy at birth among South Korean women in 2030 will be higher than 86·7 years, the same as the highest worldwide life expectancy in 2012, and a 57% probability that it will be higher than 90 years.
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An omission of this fact can result in a large underestimation of life expectancy, as shown in Section 4.4.1. The purpose of discussing this model in the paper is to caution engineers against ignoring the censored lifetime data from the analysis.
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Assuming a life expectancy of 78 years, this translates into a 17% reduction in total life expectancy. When one considers that a 20-year-old white male is expected to live another 58 years, a 13-year reduction due to obesity actually represents a 22% reduction in remaining years of life.
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A number of recent publications have used life expectancy data. If life expectancy is given as 82 years then should people from that population expect their average lifespan, or age at death, to be 82? A lot depends on the precise definition of the life expectancy indicator.
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Life expectancy for the SCD cohort was estimated at 54 years, which was 22 years lower than the life expectancy for the matched non-SCD cohort, and 25 years lower than the US general population (life expectancies of 76 and 79 years, respectively).
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By comparing Table 2 to Table 1, we see that correcting for the potential underestimation of mortality rates for Asians reduces the total gap in life expectancy by 20%, but does not affect our conclusions about the sources of the Asian mortality advantage in America. The age component still dominates, accounting for 88% of the overall gap.
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