BACKGROUND The Indigenous population of Australia suffers considerable disadvantage across a wide range of socio-economic indicators, and is therefore the focus of many policy initiatives attempting to 'close the gap' between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Unfortunately, past population estimates have proved unreliable as denominators for these indicators. The aim of the paper is to...

BACKGROUND Discussions on raising pension eligibility age focus more on improvement in life expectancy (LE) and health expectancy measures than on socioeconomic differences in these measures. Therefore, this study assesses the level of socioeconomic differences in these two measures in Western-Europe. METHODS Data from seven annual waves (1995-2001) of the European Community Household Panel w...

Copyright © 2013 Rocío Fernández-Ballesteros et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Throughout the world, populations are growing older; although in developed countries population Aging started early in the XX cent...

this study is concerned with understanding the impact of demographic changes, socioeconomic inequalities, and the availability of health factors on life expectancy (le) in the low and lower middle income countries.the cross-country data were collected from 91 countries from the united nations agencies in 2012. le is the response variable with demographics (total fertility rate, and adolescent f...

Abstract Background Ethiopia has experienced great improvements in life expectancy (LE) at birth over the last three decades. Despite consistent increases LE for both males and females Ethiopia, country simultaneously witnessed an increasing discrepancy between females. Methods This study used Pollard’s actuarial method of decomposing to compare age- cause- specific contributions changes sex di...

OBJECTIVES To compare spatial inequalities in life expectancy (LE) in West Central Scotland (WCS) with nine other postindustrial European regions. DESIGN A cross-sectional observational study. SETTING WCS and nine other postindustrial regions across Europe. PARTICIPANTS Data for WCS and nine other comparably deindustrialised European regions were analysed. Male and female LEs at birth wer...