Life expectancy in the United States fares poorly in international comparisons, primarily because of high mortality … blood pressure or cholesterol. We consider in greater depth mortality from prostate cancer and breast cancer, diseases for … dominant role. We show that the US has had significantly faster declines in mortality from these two diseases than comparison …

This paper examines 313 U.S. areas for differences in medical care utilization and mortality of whites ages 65-84 in …. Utilization, especially inpatient care, is strongly positively related to mortality. Mortality is positively related to cigarette … populations greater than 500,000. Mortality does not vary with population size, with or without controls. Florida is an outlier …

We project the effects of declining smoking and increasing obesity on mortality in the United States over the period … cancer. We find that both changes in smoking and in obesity are expected to have large effects on mortality. For males, the …

cannot be usefully evaluated by comparisons of infant mortality and life expectancy. We analyze several alternative measures … health status, measured in various ways is similar in both countries, mortality/incidence ratios for various cancers tend to …

remaining life expectancy and lower mortality risk relative to earlier time periods due to improvements in mortality. We examine … to determine what eligibility ages would be today and in 2050 if adjustments for mortality improvement were taken into … approximately 0.15 years annually. Failure to adjust for mortality improvement implies the percent of the population eligible to …

men has declined in most developed countries. We use mortality as a measure of health to assess the capacity to work at … older ages in 12 OECD countries. For a given level of mortality, the employment rates of older workers vary substantially … across countries and over time within countries. At each mortality rate in 2007, if American men between the ages of 55 and …