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Premature death --- Mortality --- Life expectancy --- Preventive health services --- Demography --- Business & Economics --- Expectancy of life --- Expectation of life --- Mortality, Law of --- Life spans (Biology) --- Vital statistics --- Death --- Death (Biology) --- Premature death - Former Soviet republics - Congresses. --- Mortality - Former Soviet republics - Congresses. --- Life expectancy - Former Soviet republics - Congresses. --- Preventive health services - Former Soviet republics - Congresses.

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This report helps establish a new agenda for age-friendly employment policies and practices. It sets out the policy challenges presented by rapidly ageing labour forces in OECD countries and draws out the main lessons learned from OECD's series of country reviews on Ageing and Employment policies.  Among other issues, it discusses how to remove work disincentives and increase choice in the work-retirement decision, improve employability of older workers, and change employer attitudes and employment practices.

Age and employment. --- Health promotion. --- Life expectancy. --- Older people -- Employment. --- Age and employment --- Life expectancy --- Older people --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Employment --- Employment. --- Expectancy of life --- Expectation of life --- Employment and age --- Older unemployed --- Life spans (Biology) --- Vital statistics --- Premature death --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Ability, Influence of age on --- Child labor --- Post-retirement employment

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Health --- Social medicine --- Life expectancy --- Mortality --- Mortality, Law of --- Death --- Demography --- Death (Biology) --- Expectancy of life --- Expectation of life --- Life spans (Biology) --- Vital statistics --- Premature death --- Personal health --- Wellness --- Medicine --- Physiology --- Diseases --- Holistic medicine --- Hygiene --- Well-being --- Medical care --- Medical sociology --- Medicine, Social --- Public health --- Public welfare --- Sociology --- Medical ethics --- Medical sociologists --- Social aspects

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The most widely used measure of longevity is the period life expectancy at birth which is calculated from age specific death rates by life table methods. In 2002, John Bongaarts and Griffith Feeney introduced the revolutionary idea that this conventional estimate of period life expectancy is distorted by a tempo effect whenever longevity is changing. The tempo effect is defined as an inflation or deflation of the period incidence of a demographic event resulting from a rise or fall in the mean age at which the event occurs. Some demographers agree with this radical argument; others disagree. The book reviews the debate on how best to measure period longevity. In the various chapters, leading experts in demography critically examine the existence of the tempo effect in mortality, present extensions and applications, and compare period and cohort longevity measures. The book provides a deeper understanding of and new insights into the fundamental question "How long do we live"?

Life expectancy --- Mathematical models. --- Expectancy of life --- Expectation of life --- Life spans (Biology) --- Vital statistics --- Premature death --- Demography. --- Population. --- Aging --- Statistics. --- Population Economics. --- Aging. --- Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law. --- Research. --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Gerontology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Human population --- Human populations --- Population growth --- Populations, Human --- Economics --- Human ecology --- Sociology --- Demography --- Malthusianism --- Historical demography --- Social sciences --- Population --- Physiological effect --- Statistics .

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In The Evolution of Death, the follow-up to Becoming Immortal: Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy, also published by SUNY Press, Stanley Shostak argues that death, like life, can evolve. Observing that literature, philosophy, religion, genetics, physics, and gerontology still struggle to explain why we die, Shostak explores the mystery of death from a biological perspective.Death, Shostak claims, is not the end of a linear journey, static and indifferent to change. Instead, he suggests, the current efforts to live longer have profoundly affected our ecological niche, and we are evolving into a long-lived species. Pointing to the artificial means currently used to prolong life, he argues that as we become increasingly juvenilized in our adult life, death will become significantly and evolutionarily delayed. As bodies evolve, the embryos of succeeding generations may be accumulating the stem cells that preserve and restore, providing the resources necessary to live longer and longer. If trends like this continue, Shostak contends, future human beings may join the ranks of other animals with indefinite life spans.

Life Expectancy --- Evolution. --- Aging. --- Death. --- Life expectancy. --- Expectancy of life --- Expectation of life --- Life spans (Biology) --- Vital statistics --- Premature death --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Gerontology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Cardiac Death --- Determination of Death --- End Of Life --- End-Of-Life --- Near-Death Experience --- Death, Cardiac --- Fatal Outcome --- Aging, Biological --- Biological Aging --- Mutation Accumulation --- trends. --- Philosophy --- Physiological effect