Abstract We explore methodological issues core to the cost-benefit evaluation of building adaptations designed protect against heat risks residents care homes in England context uncertainties relating loss life expectancy death. used physics modelling quantify impact external window shading on indoor temperatures. calculated associated mortality and under three sets assumptions life-shortening ...

results survival probabilities at different times were determined using the cox proportional hazards and a neural network with three nodes in the hidden layer; the ratios of standard errors with these two methods to the kaplan-meier method were 1.1593 and 1.0071, respectively, revealed a significant difference between cox and kaplan-meier (p < 0.05) and no significant difference between cox and...

introduction among the available data provided by health information systems, data on mortality are commonly used both as health inequality indicators and also socioeconomic development indices. mortality rates and life expectancy are considered as the key components of the health inequalities worldwide. till now, socioeconomic inequalities in total life expectancy have been mostly well documen...

This paper analyzes the effects of socio-economic factors on life expectancy. Using multiple regression analysis, the paper shows that there is a positive strong correlation between life expectancy as an independent variable and per capita income, health expenditures, literacy rate and daily calorie intake. Also, it shows that there is a negative strong correlation between life expectancy and n...

BACKGROUND Ethnic health inequalities for males and females among the elderly have not yet been verified in multicultural societies in developing countries. The aim of this study was to assess the extent of disparities in health expectancy among the elderly from different ethnic groups using quality-adjusted life expectancy. DESIGN A cross-sectional community-based survey was conducted. A tot...

a comparison of mental health and life expectancy in employed and unemployed women of west azerbaijan mohammadi m*1, yavarian r2 , arefi m3 received: 25 april, 2010 accepted: 27 july, 2010 abstract: background & aims: nowadays, women&apos;s participation in society has increased. in spite of having a lot of responsibilities at home such as parenting and housekeeping, they work outside the home....

background: life expectancy at birth as an alternative summary measure of mortality represents number of years which a newborn will be alive based on the current age specific death rates. as it summarizes death rates across all age range in a given population is the most common summary measure of mortality. the aim of this study was to correct death rates for underreport and estimate life expec...