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Compensation law of mortality
About: Compensation law of mortality is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 335 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29976 citations.
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TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study provides a comprehensive assessment of all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1980 to 2015, finding several countries in sub-Saharan Africa had very large gains in life expectancy, rebounding from an era of exceedingly high loss of life due to HIV/AIDS.
4,804 citations
TL;DR: The frequent opportunities I have had of receiving pleasure from your writings and conversation, have induced me to prefer offering to the Royal Society through your medium, this Paper on Life Contingencies, which forms part of a continuation of my original paper on the same subject, published among the valuable papers of the Society, as by passing through your hands it may receive the advantage of your judgment.
Abstract: Dear Sir, The frequent opportunities I have had of receiving pleasure from your writings and conversation, have induced me to prefer offering to the Royal Society through your medium, this Paper on Life Contingencies, which forms part of a continuation of my original paper on the same subject, published among the valuable papers of the Society, as by passing through your hands it may receive the advantage of your judgment.
3,257 citations
TL;DR: The average age at first infirmity can be raised, thereby making the morbidity curve more rectangular, and present data allow calculation of the ideal average life span, approximately 85 years.
Abstract: The average length of life has risen from 47 to 73 years in this century, but the maximum life span has not increased Therefore, survival curves have assumed an ever more rectangular form Eighty per cent of the years of life lost to nontraumatic, premature death have been eliminated, and most premature deaths are now due to the chronic diseases of the later years Present data allow calculation of the ideal average life span, approximately 85 years Chronic illness may presumably be postponed by changes in life style, and it has been shown that the physiologic and psychologic markers of aging may be modified Thus, the average age at first infirmity can be raised, thereby making the morbidity curve more rectangular Extension of adult vigor far into a fixed life span compresses the period of senescence near the end of life Health-research strategies to improve the quality of life require careful study of the variability of the phenomena of aging and how they may be modified
3,007 citations
TL;DR: Calculations based on Swedish mortality data suggest that standard methods overestimate current life expectancy and potential gains in life expectancy from health and safety interventions, while underestimating rates of individual aging, past progress in reducing mortality, and mortality differentials between pairs of populations.
Abstract: Life table methods are developed for populations whose members differ in their endowment for longevity. Unlike standard methods, which ignore such heterogeneity, these methods use different calculations to construct cohort, period, and individual life tables. The results imply that standard methods overestimate current life expectancy and potential gains in life expectancy from health and safety interventions, while underestimating rates of individual aging, past progress in reducing mortality, and mortality differentials between pairs of populations. Calculations based on Swedish mortality data suggest that these errors may be important, especially in old age.
2,271 citations
TL;DR: In the Whitehall study, 17 530 civil servants were classified according to employment grade, and their mortality was recorded over 10 years, showing a steep inverse relation between grade and mortality.
1,437 citations