Causes of international increases in older age life expectancy

The Lancet

Volumn 385, Issue 9967, 2015, Pages 540-548

  Mathers, Colin D ^a   Stevens, Gretchen A ^a   Boerma, Ties ^a   White, Richard A ^b   Tobias, Martin I ^c  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c Health and Disability Intelligence Ministry of Health   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; LONGEVITY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL CARE; MORTALITY; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMOKING; AGED; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84922901667     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60569-9     Document Type: Review

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