Exploring the health state of a population by dynamic modeling methods. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christos H. Skiadas, Charilaos Skiadas.
• Authors: Skiadas, Christos H; Skiadas, Charilaos
• Contents: Life expectancy, deterioration function and application to Halley Breslau data -- A quantitative method for estimating the human development stages based on the health state function theory and the resulting deterioration process -- Estimating the healthy life expectancy from the health state function of a population in connection to the life expectancy at birth -- The health-mortality approach in estimating the healthy life years lost compared to the global burden of disease studies and applications in world, USA and Japan -- The health state status of the US states for the period 1989-1991 (Decennial life tables) -- Life expectancy at birth, estimates and forecasts in the Netherlands (females) -- Remarks and findings on "evidence for a limit to human life span" -- Stages of human development: the life-span approach and related applications and comparisons -- Deviation and variation of the health state function form of a population -- The health status of a population: health state and survival curves and HALE estimates -- Theoretical approach to health state modeling.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 304.645; Social sciences; Life expectancy -- Statistics; Medical statistics; Mortality -- Statistics; Demography -- Methodology; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography; Demography -- Methodology; Life expectancy; Medical statistics; Mortality; Medical -- Public Health; Social Science -- Statistics; Public health & preventive medicine; Social research & statistics; Demography; Statistics; Population & demography; Electronic books; Statistics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319651422; 3319651420
• Related ISBNs: 9783319651415
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 23, 2017).
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