BACKGROUND Health expectancies, taking into account both quality and quantity of life, have generally been based on disability and physical functioning. AIMS To compare mental health expectancies at age 25 and 55 based on common mental disorders both across countries and between males and females. METHOD Mental health expectancies were calculated by combining mortality data from population ...

During the past several decades, Thailand has experienced a significant demographic transition from high to low of fertility and mortality. The United Nations has reported that the total fertility rate in Thailand has declined from over 6 births per woman in the mid 1960s to 1.8 in the period 2005-2010 and during the same period, life expectancy at birth increased from 56 years to 66 years for ...

Life expectancy is an important indicator to evaluate the social development of a country. Health and longevity can not only improve people’s life quality but also ensure them to have more time to pursue their life goal. A one-year increase in life expectancy during ‘China’s Twelfth Five-Year Economic and Social Development Plan’ period has been used as an indicator to evaluate whether the goal...

This study assesses the trends and differentials in length of quality life in the U.S. population as measured by happy life expectancy in 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000. The analysis combines age-specific prevalence rates of subjective well-being from a large nationally representative survey and life table estimates of mortality in decennial Census years. Employing the period prevalence-rate life t...

BACKGROUND The United States spends more than any other country on health care. The poor relative performance of the US compared to other high-income countries has attracted attention and raised questions about the performance of the US health system. An important dimension to poor national performance is the large disparities in life expectancy. METHODS We applied a mixed effects Poisson sta...