Socioeconomic Determinants of White and Black Males’ Life Expectancy Differentials, 1980

Epidemiological transition theory suggests that two population existing under disparate socioeconomic conditions would have different life expectancies as the result of cause-of-death differences. The effect of racial socioeconomic differentials on the total racial life expectancy differential are examined as they act through specific cause-of-death differentials. Results suggest that residential isolation of blacks has a strong effect on the total life expectancy differential as it acts through the racial homicide differential. The racial unemployment difference also has a strong effect on the total differential as it acts through the racial heart disease differential. Implications of the findings for reducing life expectancy differentials are discussed.     

平均预期寿命、健康工作寿命与延迟退休年龄

我国劳动者能健康工作多久?退休年龄究竟延迟到哪一岁最为合理?这关系着广大劳动者切身利益因而是非常重大的政策性问题。本研究采用生命表技术编制了我国2005和2010年分性别人口平均预期寿命、健康预期寿命、工作寿命及健康工作寿命表,然后从劳动力健康工作的视角提出我国延迟退休的合理目标年龄。研究发现,2005和2010年,我国男女健康工作寿命都分别接近62岁和58岁。该发现的重要政策启示在于:我国当前可适当延迟退休年龄,女性比男性延迟退休的空间大,男女65岁同龄退休的时机还未成熟,建议我国延迟退休的目标年龄应以男性62岁,女性58岁为上限;从生命周期角度对我国退休年龄进行国际比较,若按男性62岁,女性58岁为退休年龄上限执行,那么我国劳动力的退休生涯与工作寿命之比将接近发达国家的平均水平;从政策的操作层面来看,我国延迟退休应女先男后或女快男慢,并采取弹性退休制度逐步推迟退休年龄。     

中国各地区人口预期寿命及地理分布分析

平均预期寿命是世界公认的衡量人类进步的标准。本文以生命表为基础,主要依据我国第六次人口普查资料,计算各省市区的预期寿命并进行相关分析,计算结果表明,2010年中国人口平均预期寿命为78.17岁,男75.86岁,女80.68岁,已进入发达国家行列。预期寿命与婴儿死亡率呈负相关r＝-0.789,与人均国民总收入呈正相关r＝0.604。预期寿命女性比男性长4～7岁,符合一般规律。影响男性寿命低于女性的原因很多,本文重点讨论了遗传因素和生活方式的影响,并对预期寿命的地理分布进行分析。     

中国老年人的空巢时间有多长?

在中国人口老龄化过程中,随着空巢老人比重的持续上升,老年人在空巢状态度过的时间也在不断延长.文章使用中国健康与养老追踪调查(CHARLS) 2011、2013年的数据和多状态生命表法,估计60岁及以上老年人的预期寿命和空巢预期寿命,及其性别、城乡和受教育程度差异.结果表明,中国老年人整个老年期中超过一半的余寿都处在空巢状态;女性老年人的空巢预期寿命高于男性老年人;农村老年人的空巢预期寿命高于城市老年人;而受教育水平越高,老年人空巢预期寿命也越长.另外,老年人的空巢预期寿命与他们当前所处居住状态有很大关系,当前处在空巢状态的老年人的空巢预期寿命及其占余寿比重都远远高于处于非空巢状态的老年人.     

健康预期寿命国际比较及中国健康预期寿命预测研究

健康预期寿命由预期寿命衍生而来,是人群保持完全健康状态尚能存活的期望年数,是评估人群健康水平的指标。健康预期寿命既能反映生命数量(长寿水平),又能反映生命质量(健康程度)。世界卫生组织在《1997年世界卫生报告》中呼吁在关心预期寿命的同时更要重视健康预期寿命,随后与健康预期寿命相关的国际研究、国际政策的战略规划逐步推广该指标的应用。目前发达国家十分重视健康预期寿命研究,将其纳入国家战略规划。本文系统梳理了相关国家和地区的健康预期寿命发展状况,根据发达国家健康预期寿命发展特征,采用健康预期寿命年均增加法和健康预期寿命和预期寿命差值法,对我国2020年及2030年健康预期寿命进行推测,为我国制定健康中国发展规划提供对策建议。2020年中国健康预期寿命为69.2岁左右(69.1⁶9.4),其中男性为67.2岁左右(67.169.4),其中男性为67.2岁左右(67.1⁶7.4),女性为71.3岁左右(71.167.4),女性为71.3岁左右(71.1⁷1.5);2030年中国健康预期寿命为70.9岁左右(70.671.5);2030年中国健康预期寿命为70.9岁左右(70.6⁷1.2),其中男性为69.1岁左右(68.871.2),其中男性为69.1岁左右(68.8⁶9.4),女性为72.7岁左右(72.469.4),女性为72.7岁左右(72.4⁷3.1)。建议将健康预期寿命的发展纳入中国2030经济社会发展规划指标,建立中国健康预期寿命的监测指标体系。     

A Comparative Study of Handicap-free Life Expectancy of China in 1987 and 2006

After the first large scale national sampling survey on handicapped persons in 1987, China conducted its second national sampling survey in 2006. Using the data from these two surveys and the national life tables, we computed and compared the expected years of life free of handicapped condition by the Sullivan method. The expected years of life lived with handicap for the Chinese population increased from 4.87 years for males and 5.81 years for females in 1987 to 5.55 years and 6.32 years in 2006, respectively. The same trend was observed for people in working ages (15–64) and old ages (65+). However, the expected years of life lived with handicap decreased for children (0–14). Our results also showed that the effect of skeletal handicap increased notably for both sexes. Healthy life expectancy is an important indicator in measuring quality of life of a population. Our study utilized this measurement to quantify one aspect of quality of life of the Chinese population.     

Life Satisfaction Among University Students in a Canadian Prairie City: a Multivariate Analysis

This article reports the findings from a questionnaire survey of university students’ life satisfaction in Regina. The results demonstrated that a significant proportion of the 315 respondents were satisfied with their lives (N = 240, 76.2%). With regard to degree of satisfaction with different aspects of life, respondents expressed that they were most satisfied with relationship with mother, living environment, relationships with close friends, relationships with siblings, and living arrangement. Multiple ordinary least-squares regression analyses revealed that respondents who indicated a higher socio-economic status, achieveda higher grade point average, and were more satisfied with their academic experience, self-esteem, relationship with significant other, and living conditions, expressed a markedly higher level of satisfaction with life.     

人口平均预期寿命及疾病影响因素分析

本文使用生命表的研究方法对2016年吉林省死因监测数据进行分析,推算吉林省人口平均预期寿命,分析主要疾病对预期寿命的影响。研究结果表明2016年吉林省总人口平均预期寿命是78.12岁,其中男性为75.83岁,女性为80.61岁。与2010年第六次人口普查吉林省人口平均预期寿命相比总人口平均预期寿命提高了1.94岁,其中男性提高了1.71岁,女性提高了2.17岁。分析疾病因素对人口死亡的影响,主要疾病致死率非常高,其中前10位死亡原因引起的死亡比例占98.94%,前4位死亡原因引起的死亡人数占总死亡人数的90.9%,影响较大的疾病包括循环系统疾病、肿瘤、呼吸系统疾病、消化系统疾病、内分泌系统疾病等。进一步分析主要疾病对人口平均预期寿命的影响发现,循环系统疾病是对人均预期寿命影响最大的疾病,因循环系统疾病死亡的人数占总死亡人数的一半以上。要想降低疾病的发生率及致死率,进而提高人均预期寿命,必须依靠全社会的共同努力。针对疾病发生的危险因素,建立危险因素的识别与干预体系,倡导健康生活方式,建设公共安全环境。     

我国人口预期寿命分析与预测

本文通过对我国人口年龄和性别构成现状的分析,运用蒋庆琅法利用2003年我国人口抽样和死亡率资料编制当年的简略寿命表,估算我国现阶段人口的预期寿命。接着,对我国自解放至今人口预期寿命的变化及其原因进行分析,并最终利用我国自第四次人口普查至第五次人口普查阶段人口预期寿命增长率等相关资料,对我国人口2001-2020年的预期寿命作出预测,得出今后我国人口预期寿命将继续增长,但增长率依年度的推移而递减。     

中国老年人口的自理预期寿命变动——社会性别视角下的差异分析

基于2005年"小普查"及2010年"六普"汇总数据,本文利用生命表技术及Sullivan法,分析了男性与女性老年人口预期寿命、自理预期寿命及其差异的变化。研究发现,随着年龄的提高,预期寿命与自理预期寿命的性别差异均呈缩减趋势;5年间,老年人口预期寿命的性别差异在低龄阶段有略微的扩张趋势,而自理预期寿命的性别差异则在各年龄均呈扩张趋势;男性老年人口自理预期寿命占余寿的比重始终高于女性,而且与以往研究结论不同的是,5年间老年人口自理预期寿命占余寿的比重呈上升趋势,且女性该比重的上升幅度高于男性。     

Trends in Education-Specific Life Expectancy,Data Quality,and Shifting Education Distributions: A Note on Recent Research

Several recent articles have reported conflicting conclusions about educational differences in life expectancy, and this is partly due to the use of unreliable data subject to a numerator-denominator bias previously reported as ranging from 20 % to 40 %. This article presents estimates of life expectancy and lifespan variation by education in the United States using more reliable data from the National Health Interview Survey. Contrary to prior conclusions in the literature, I find that life expectancy increased or stagnated since 1990 among all education-race-sex groups except for non-Hispanic white women with less than a high school education; there has been a robust increase in life expectancy among white high school graduates and a smaller increase among black female high school graduates; lifespan variation did not increase appreciably among high school graduates; and lifespan variation plays a very limited role in explaining educational gradients in mortality. I also discuss the key role that educational expansion may play in driving future changes in mortality gradients. Because of shifting education distributions, within an education-specific synthetic cohort, older age groups are less negatively selected than younger age groups. We could thus expect a greater concentration of mortality at younger ages among people with a high school education or less, which would be reflected in increasing lifespan variability for this group. Future studies of educational gradients in mortality should use more reliable data and should be mindful of the effects of shifting education distributions.     

Quality of Life and Its Influencing Factors Among Centenarians in Nanjing,China: A Cross-Sectional Study

Social Indicators Research - As centenarians are the most vulnerable social group among older adults, their quality of life (QoL) is of great significance for the realization of healthy aging and a...     

Life Expectancy Index: Age Structure of Population and Environment Evolution

Social Indicators Research - Tolerance, Technology and Talent indexes that are found in the literature and used to compare cities tend to focus more on economic and technologic progress. However,...     

Unmet Needs for Assistance with ADLs and IADLs: A Measure of Healthy Life Expectancy

Measures of healthy life expectancy have beendeveloped over the last thirty years to evaluate thequality of life of an increasing life expectancy.These measures are usually accounting for prevalencerates of either disability or physical dependence inperforming everyday activities. Although they allowfor a better assessment of quality of life, they arenot reflecting the fact that a disabled person mightbe receiving adequate or inadequate assistance forthese activities. In a context of population aging,where our health care system will have to deal moreand more with chronic disease instead of acutedisease, it is imperative to develop a measure thatwill account for the adequacy of the assistanceprovided to the disabled elderly population. Usingdata from the 1986 Health and Activity LimitationSurvey, we are introducing a measure of healthy lifeexpectancy which will fill this gap. We present theconstruction of this measure of population health anddiscuss its usefulness in assessing policies at amacro level.     

Estimates of Regional and Global Life Expectancy, 1800–2001

Historians and demographers have gone to considerable trouble to reconstruct life expectancy in the past in individual countries. This overview collects information from a large body of that work and links estimates for historical populations to those provided by the United Nations, the World Bank, and other sources for 1950–2001. The result is a picture of regional and global life expectancy at birth for selected years from 1800 to 2001. The bibliography of more than 700 sources is published separately on the web.     

The Legacy of the Great Recession in Italy: A Wider Geographical,Gender, and Generational Gap in Working Life Expectancy

Under the pressure of population aging the Italian pension system has undergone reforms to increase labor force participation and retirement age, and, thus, the length of working life. However, how the duration of working life has developed in recent years is not well understood. This paper is the first to analyze trends in working life expectancy in Italy. We use data from a nationally representative longitudinal sample of 880,000 individuals from 2003 to 2013 and estimate working life expectancy by gender, occupational category, and region of residence using a Markov chain approach. We document large and increasing heterogeneity in the length of working life. From 2003–2004 to 2012–2013, working life expectancy for men declined from 35.2 to 27.2 years and for women from 34.7 to 23.7 years, increasing the gender gap to 3.5 years. Both young and old were hit, as roughly half of the decline was attributable to ages below 40, half above 40. Working life expectancy declined for all occupational groups, but those in manual occupations lost most, 8.5 years (men) and 10.5 years (women). The North–South economic gradient widened such that men living in the North were expected to work 8 years longer than women living in the South. The fraction of working life of total life expectancy at age 15 declined to record lows at 40% for men and 34% for women in 2012–2013. Policies aiming at increasing total population working life expectancy need to take into consideration the socio-demographic disparities highlighted by our results.

     

中国1998年健康长寿调查及高龄老人生活自理期望寿命

在有关领导部门的指导及各地老龄工作部门同志们的大力协助和参与下,北京大学人口研究所与中国老龄科研中心于1998年在全国22个省、自治区、直辖市组织开展了高龄老人健康长寿调查.本文概述这一调查的意义,样本计方案及数据质量评估,并根据这次调查搜集到的数据资料,首次对中国高龄老人先后自理期望寿命进行估算、分析与讨论.     

Quality of Life,Multimodality, and the Demise of the Autocentric Metropolis: A Multivariate Analysis of 148 Mid-Size U.S. Cities

Social Indicators Research - Quality of life has recently gained prominence in the urban affairs, development, and planning debates. A wide-range of factors have been linked to quality of life,...     

中国高龄老人生活自理能力多变量多状态生命表分析

基于中国高龄老人健康与长寿纵向调查的 1 998年、 2 0 0 0年和 2 0 0 2年数据和多变量风险回归模型 ,本文用曾—顾—兰德改良多状态生命表方法从性别、城乡居住地、民族、文化程度、经济自立状况、婚姻状况和居住安排角度计算并讨论了中国高龄老人的生活自理预期寿命