A central question of interdisciplinary health research is whether the life years gained through increasing life … expectancy are primarily spent in good or poor health. Two opposing models have been proposed: "expansion of morbidity" and … on the particular dimension of health under consideration. In this paper we hypothesize that the longitudinal health …

health and mortality and the male-female health survival paradox. Based on the Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI …The Healthy Life Years (HLY) indicator is the official European Union indicator and a cornerstone of many health … policies used in over 15 countries in the EU region to set national health plans and monitor targets. It is also used to …

relate this process with health and retirement issues. Five dimensions of the ageing process have been considered: population …, mortality, longevity, lifecourses and morbidity. Conventionally measured ageing can be caused by low fertility and longer lives … and EU countries have experienced both. We emphasise the considerable compression of mortality that has taken place and …

We analyze the effect of economic conditions early in life on individual mortality rate later in life, using business … death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health … indicators. We correct for secular changes over time and other mortality determinants. We nonparametrically compare those born in …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

Recent increases in mortality have brought life expectancy back to the forefront of the public health debate in the US … restricted to very particular causes of death, but is mostly driven by adult and old age mortality. We calculate that welfare … average health performance of OECD countries at their typical health expenditures. …