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Why is Japanese life expectancy so high
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Nayu Ikeda and colleagues provide a careful analysis of the cause of death and risk factor data to investigate potential causes for Japan’s decline in mortality since World War 2 and argue that public health programmes to promote salt reduction and primary care management of high blood pressure with antihypertensives were instrumental in bringing down stroke mortality.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2011-09-24. It has received 31 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Life expectancy.read more
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Comprehensive health literacy in Japan is lower than in Europe: a validated Japanese-language assessment of health literacy
Kazuhiro Nakayama,Wakako Osaka,Taisuke Togari,Hirono Ishikawa,Yuki Yonekura,Ai Sekido,Masayoshi Matsumoto +6 more
TL;DR: This study translated a comprehensive health literacy questionnaire into Japanese and confirmed its reliability and validity, and suggested that Japanese health literacy is lower than that of Europeans.
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The Economics of Public Health Care Reform in Advanced and Emerging Economies
TL;DR: New insights are provided into the challenges and potential policy responses to health care reform in both advanced and emerging economies, with cross-country analysis and case studies.
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Changes in life expectancy 1950–2010: contributions from age- and disease-specific mortality in selected countries
Jochen Klenk,Jochen Klenk,Ulrich Keil,Andrea Jaensch,Marcus C. Christiansen,Marcus C. Christiansen,Gabriele Nagel +6 more
TL;DR: Changes of life years estimated with the decomposing method can be directly interpreted and may therefore be useful in public health communication.
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The impact of cataract surgery on cognitive function in an aging population.
TL;DR: There is an increase in reports supporting the hypothesis that cataract surgery can improve cognition; however, there is still insufficient evidence for cognitive improvement after cataracts surgery.
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Understanding the rapid increase in life expectancy in shanghai, China: a population-based retrospective analysis.
TL;DR: The four-decade sustained gain in LE in Shanghai is due to the reductions in mortality from the elderly and chronic diseases such as cerebrovascular disease, chronic lower respiratory disease, and gastrointestinal cancers.
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The world health report 2000 - Health systems: improving performance
Uwe E. Reinhardt,Tsung-mei Cheng +1 more
TL;DR: The chief virtue of the WHO report lies in the challenges it poses for its critics within the health services research community, and it is fair to query whether, on balance, so precarious an undertaking does more good than harm.
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Increased educational attainment and its effect on child mortality in 175 countries between 1970 and 2009: a systematic analysis
TL;DR: The substantial increase in education, especially of women, and the reversal of the gender gap have important implications not only for health but also for the status and roles of women in society.
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What has made the population of Japan healthy
Nayu Ikeda,Eiko Saito,Naoki Kondo,Manami Inoue,Shunya Ikeda,Toshihiko Satoh,Koji Wada,Andrew Stickley,Kota Katanoda,Tetsuya Mizoue,Mitsuhiko Noda,Hiroyasu Iso,Yoshihisa Fujino,Tomotaka Sobue,Shoichiro Tsugane,Mohsen Naghavi,Majid Ezzati,Kenji Shibuya +17 more
TL;DR: Japan needs to tackle major health challenges that are emanating from a rapidly ageing population, causes that are not amenable to health technologies, and the effects of increasing social disparities to sustain the improvement in population health.
Japan: Universal Health Care at 50 Years 1 What has made the population of Japan healthy?
Nayu Ikeda,Eiko Saito,Naoki Kondo,Manami Inoue,Shunya Ikeda,Toshihiko Satoh,Koji Wada,Andrew Stickley,Kota Katanoda,Tetsuya Mizoue,Mitsuhiko Noda,Hiroyasu Iso,Yoshihisa Fujino,Tomotaka Sobue,Shoichiro Tsugane,Mohsen Naghavi,Majid Ezzati,Kenji Shibuya +17 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compile the best available evidence about population health in Japan to investigate what has made the Japanese people healthy in the past 50 years and find that the Japanese population achieved longevity in a fairly short time through a rapid reduction in mortality rates for communicable diseases from the 1950s to the early 1960s, followed by a large reduction in stroke mortality rates.
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Falling behind: life expectancy in US counties from 2000 to 2007 in an international context
TL;DR: The US has extremely large geographic and racial disparities, with some communities having life expectancies already well behind those of the best-performing nations, and relative performance for most communities continues to drop.