Assessing performance of the Healthcare Access and Quality Index, overall and by select age groups, for 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic …

A Haakenstad, JA Yearwood, N Fullman… - The Lancet global …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Health-care needs change throughout the life course. It is thus crucial to assess
whether health systems provide access to quality health care for all ages. Drawing from the …

Dynamics of life expectancy and life span equality

JM Aburto, F Villavicencio, U Basellini… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
As people live longer, ages at death are becoming more similar. This dual advance over the
last two centuries, a central aim of public health policies, is a major achievement of modern …

What have we learned about mortality patterns over the past 25 years?

AA van Raalte - Population Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, I examine progress in the field of mortality over the past 25 years. I argue that
we have been most successful in taking advantage of an increasingly data-rich environment …

[HTML][HTML] Transição da morbimortalidade no Brasil: um desafio aos 30 anos de SUS

TCF Martins, JHCM Silva, GC Máximo… - Ciência & Saúde …, 2021 - SciELO Public Health
Em 2020, completamos 30 anos desde a publicação das Leis Orgânicas do Sistema Único
de Saúde. Desde então, a mudança no perfil de morbimortalidade tem desafiado a gestão …

Spatial analysis of cardiovascular mortality and associated factors around the world

EA Baptista, BL Queiroz - BMC public health, 2022 - Springer
Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the most serious health issues and the
leading cause of death worldwide in both developed and developing countries. The risk …

[HTML][HTML] Linking retirement age to life expectancy does not lessen the demographic implications of unequal lifespans

JA Alvarez, M Kallestrup-Lamb, S Kjærgaard - Insurance: Mathematics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The fact that individuals are living longer and thus spending more time in retirement
challenges the sustainability of pension systems. This has forced policy makers to rethink …

The threshold age of the lifetable entropy

JM Aburto, JA Alvarez, F Villavicencio, JW Vaupel - Demographic Research, 2019 - JSTOR
BACKGROUND Indicators of relative variation of lifespans are markers of inequality at the
population level and of uncertainty at the time of death at the individual level. In particular …

[HTML][HTML] The adult mortality profile by cause of death in 10 Latin American countries (2000–2016)

JA Calazans, BL Queiroz - Revista panamericana de salud …, 2020 - SciELO Public Health
Objective. To investigate the adult mortality profile from eight causes of death in 10 Latin
American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico …

Probability of males to outlive females: an international comparison from 1751 to 2020

MP Bergeron-Boucher, JA Alvarez, I Kashnitsky… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To measure sex differences in lifespan based on the probability of males to outlive
females. Design International comparison of national and regional sex-specific life tables …

Unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 on life expectancy across urban areas in Chile: a cross-sectional demographic study

G Mena, JM Aburto - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To quantify the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy in Chile
categorised by rural and urban areas, and to correlate life expectancy changes with …