relatively small in the insurance market in many countries around the world. Prior studies have shown that a substandard health … where individuals with impaired health are entitled to higher annuity payments. However, this market is less explored in … rates are offered in the market. The life cycle model in this paper incorporates multiple health states based on 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 …

We propose a new model in a Bayesian hierarchical framework to project mortality at both national and subnational … model's use by drawing on a new database containing provincial-level mortality data for China from four censuses conducted … States. We use mortality forecasts to compute and compare national and subnational life expectancies for China and the United …

have been extensively used for estimating age patterns of mortality in poor-data countries. We propose a new model inspired …

accurate modelling and projection of mortality rates and life expectancy play a central role and represent issues of great … interest in recent literature. Our study refers to the Italian mortality experience and considers an indexing mechanism based … performances of selected stochastic mortality models, a model assembling technique is applied to face uncertainty in model …

conventional approach of modelling mortality rates. Furthermore, we demonstrate how these survival probability models can be …

Bayesian Model Ensemble of heterogeneous stochastic mortality models comprised of parametric models, principal component …

We construct a new age-specific mortality framework and implement an exemplar (DLGC) that provides an excellent fit to … data from various countries and across long time periods while also providing accurate mortality forecasts by projecting … time trends that react to major world mortality events. These trends are similar for countries with similar life …