BACKGROUND Life expectancy is one of the most useful indicators of mortality and development in a given society but considers only one aspect of the distribution of length of life: the average.

and how much life expectancy could be improved by increasing PA levels for both populations and individuals. Methods We applied a predictive model based on device-measured PA risk estimates and a life ...

Period life expectancy is the number of years that a person of a selected age can be expected to live, assuming that the chance of death on which the survival table is based does not change in the ...

Cohort life tables track the mortality experience of people born in each year from 1876.Key factsCohort life tables give the most authoritative ...

Demographic Research Vol. 24, JANUARY - JUNE 2011 Significance of life table estimates for... We study bias, standard errors, and distributions of characteristics of life tables for small populations.

Life expectancy tables were created at 10-year intervals between ages 35 and 75 to illustrate the benefits of quitting at various ages. Findings showed that, on average, individuals who quit ...

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an increase in life expectancy was driven mainly by improvements in sanitation, housing, and education, causing a steady decline in early and ...

‘Period life expectancy’ is the number of years that a person of a given age is expected to live, assuming that the likelihood of death on which the life table (showing the ages to which a particular ...