Self-ratings of health by individuals responding to surveys have shown themselves to be
potent predictors of mortality in a growing number of studies; they appear to contribute …

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Americans enjoyed better overall health than at any
other time in the nation's history. Rapid advancements in medical technologies …

Given medical advances and greater understanding of healthful living habits, people are
living longer lives. Proportionally speaking, a greater percentage of the population is elderly …

A basic requirement for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of health interventions is a
comprehensive assessment of the amount of ill health (premature death and disability) …

Objective. To estimate the magnitude and age distribution of lifetime health care
expenditures. Data Sources. Claims data on 3.75 million Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan …

Estimates of the upper limits to human longevity have important policy implications that
directly affect forecasts of life expectancy, active life expectancy, population aging, and …

This article demonstrates and explains why future declines in mortality will have a
diminishing effect on the metric of life expectancy but a large impact on the size of future …

Background and Methods Persons of low socioeconomic status are known to have reduced
life expectancy. In a study of the relation of socioeconomic status to disability-free or active …

Conventional methods for collecting, analysing and disseminating data and information on
disability in populations have relied on cross-sectional censuses and surveys which …

This paper demonstrates the consequences of changes in mortality and health transition
rates for changes in both health status life expectancy and the prevalence of health …