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Life expectancy

A simplified approach to measuring national gender inequality

Gijsbert Stoet, David C. Geary

published 03 Jan 2019

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Closing the Gap: Increases in Life Expectancy among Treated HIV-Positive Individuals in the United States and Canada

Hasina Samji, Angela Cescon, Robert S. Hogg, Sharada P. Modur, Keri N. Althoff, Kate Buchacz, Ann N. Burchell, Mardge Cohen, Kelly A. Gebo, M. John Gill, Amy Justice, Gregory Kirk, Marina B. Klein, P. Todd Korthuis, Jeff Martin, Sonia Napravnik, Sean B. Rourke, Timothy R. Sterling, Michael J. Silverberg, Stephen Deeks, Lisa P. Jacobson, Ronald J. Bosch, Mari M. Kitahata, James J. Goedert, Richard Moore, Stephen J. Gange, for The North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD) of IeDEA

published 18 Dec 2013

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Gender in the time of COVID-19: Evaluating national leadership and COVID-19 fatalities

Leah C. Windsor, Gina Yannitell Reinhardt, Alistair J. Windsor, Robert Ostergard, Susan Allen, Courtney Burns, Jarod Giger, Reed Wood

published 31 Dec 2020

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Life Expectancy at Birth for People with Serious Mental Illness and Other Major Disorders from a Secondary Mental Health Care Case Register in London

Chin-Kuo Chang, Richard D. Hayes, Gayan Perera, Mathew T. M. Broadbent, Andrea C. Fernandes, William E. Lee, Mathew Hotopf, Robert Stewart

published 18 May 2011

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Assessing the impact of the “one-child policy” in China: A synthetic control approach

Stuart Gietel-Basten, Xuehui Han, Yuan Cheng

published 06 Nov 2019

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Excess mortality due to Covid-19? A comparison of total mortality in 2020 with total mortality in 2016 to 2019 in Germany, Sweden and Spain

Bernd Kowall, Fabian Standl, Florian Oesterling, Bastian Brune, Marcus Brinkmann, Marcel Dudda, Peter Pflaumer, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Andreas Stang

published 03 Aug 2021

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Trends in Longevity in the Americas: Disparities in Life Expectancy in Women and Men, 1965-2010

Ian R. Hambleton, Christina Howitt, Selvi Jeyaseelan, Madhuvanti M. Murphy, Anselm J Hennis, Rainford Wilks, E. Nigel Harris, Marlene MacLeish, Louis Sullivan, U.S. Caribbean Alliance for Health Disparities Research Group (USCAHDR)

published 19 Jun 2015

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Mortality postponement and compression at older ages in human cohorts

David McCarthy, Po-Lin Wang

published 29 Mar 2023

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Longevity of outstanding sporting achievers: Mind versus muscle

An Tran-Duy, David C. Smerdon, Philip M. Clarke

published 03 May 2018

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Waist-to-Height Ratio Is More Predictive of Years of Life Lost than Body Mass Index

Margaret Ashwell, Les Mayhew, Jon Richardson, Ben Rickayzen

published 08 Sep 2014

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Do "big guys" really die younger? An examination of height and lifespan in former professional basketball players

Srdjan Lemez, Nick Wattie, Joseph Baker

published 02 Oct 2017

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Assessing the potential impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy

Guillaume Marois, Raya Muttarak, Sergei Scherbov

published 17 Sep 2020

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Why Men Matter: Mating Patterns Drive Evolution of Human Lifespan

Shripad D. Tuljapurkar, Cedric O. Puleston, Michael D. Gurven

published 29 Aug 2007

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