Age‐associated diseases are rising to pandemic proportions, exposing the need for efficient
and low‐cost methods to tackle these maladies at symptomatic, behavioral, metabolic, and …

Period life expectancy is one of the most used summary indicators for the overall health of a
population. Its levels and trends direct health policies, and researchers try to identify the …

Background Understanding potential trajectories in health and drivers of health is crucial to
guiding long-term investments and policy implementation. Past work on forecasting has …

The purpose of this Perspective is to clarify for an interdisciplinary audience the fundamental
concepts of human longevity and provide evidence for a limit to human lifespan. This …

Well-being is increasingly viewed as a multidimensional phenomenon, of which income is
only one facet. In this paper I focus on another one, health, and look at its synthetic measure …

Abstract Background The People's Health Movement (PHM) was formed in 2000 and drew
inspiration from the Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care's 'Health for All'(1978) …

Background: Africa will double its population by 2050 and more than half will be below age
25. The continent has a unique opportunity to boost its socioeconomic welfare. This …

The conventional approach to gauging mortality convergence in Europe relies on life
expectancy estimates (e 0 e^0) at the national level. However, mortality can differ within …

Assessments of countries' longevity and its variability around the globe often rely on life
expectancy (LE) but tend not to differentiate between the years spent in “good” or “less‐than …

The European continent has one of the longest life expectancies in the world, but still faces a
significant challenge to meet the health targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals of …