between the estimates of the total obesity-related costs and the health insurance premium by state in order to evaluate the …

The development of health indicators to measure healthy life expectancy (HLE) is an active field of research aimed at … summarizing the health of a population. Although many health indicators have emerged in the literature as critical metrics in … public health assessments, the methods and data to conduct this evaluation vary considerably in nature and quality …

-specific factors such as health anxiety in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic based on people's attitudes toward a mobile health app … stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic that affect the usage of a mobile health app. The study followed a cross-sectional design … health app, namely, event-related fear and COVID-19 anxiety. The study results may help governments, health policymakers, and …

The ability and willingness of health care workers to report for work during a pandemic are essential to pandemic …-based survey sent to health care workers on the island of Montreal. Respondents were asked about their perception of various risks …

The way one leads their life is considered an important factor in health. In this paper we propose a system to provide … risk assessment based on behavior for the health insurance sector. To do so we built a platform to collect real-world data … service to the health insurance professionals by manipulating the classifier predictions in the long-term. We also address …

protective factors, as well as possible remedial effects against unfavorable social and health phenomena, which are related to …

This paper uses mortality fan charts to illustrate prospective future male mortality. These fan charts show both the … most likely path of male mortality and the bands of uncertainty surrounding that path. The fan charts are based on a model … of male mortality that is known to provide a good fit to UK mortality data. The fan charts suggest that there are clear …

a multi-population mortality model which includes a cause-specific environment using Archimedean copulae to model … dependence between various groups of causes of death. For this, Dutch data on cause-of-death mortality and cause …-specific mortality data from 14 comparable European countries were used. We find that the inclusion of a common factor to a cause …

In the field of mortality, the Lee–Carter based approach can be considered the milestone to forecast mortality rates …–Carter model, the κ t parameter, describing the mortality trend over time, plays an important role about the future mortality … behavior. The traditional ARIMA process usually used to model κ t shows evident limitations to describe the future mortality …

Estimation of future mortality rates still plays a central role among life insurers in pricing their products and … managing longevity risk. In the literature on mortality modeling, a wide number of stochastic models have been proposed, most … of them forecasting future mortality rates by extrapolating one or more latent factors. The abundance of proposed models …