Forecasts of life expectancy are an important component of public policy that influence age-based entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare. Although the Social ...
According to a now classic article by Moriyama,1 until the early 1960s, death rates provided the only relevant and sensitive measure of the health of populations. But by the mid...
Previous estimates of life expectancy in the United States have not corrected for biases in population and mortality data, and no study has examined life expectancy in U.S. Asia...
Despite growing recognition of the need for qualitative methods in health services research, there have been few attempts to define quality standards for assessing the results. ...
Background— Reducing health disparities remains a major public health challenge in the United States. Having timely access to current data on disparities is important for policy...
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