primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

One in every six U.S. adults suffers from mental health problems. Mental illnesses, as measured in disability …-adjusted life years, account for nearly 6.2% of the total disease burden worldwide and are considered to be one of the leading …% increase in service coverage for severe mental disorder", suggested by the World Health Assembly by the year 2020 for the WHO …