Life Expectancy Additional Resources
UK Government publications regarding life expectancy
Topics of interest include Excel spreadsheets for life expectancy calculation as well as population statistics.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nscl.asp?ID=7528
US Life Expectancy Improves
2001 press release from US Dept of Health and Human Services describing recent findings.
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2001pres/20011010.html
What Kills Us? Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Discussion of the causes of changes in life expectancy over the last 150 years.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/beh0051/
Premature Death in the New Independent States
Causes of increased deaths in former states of the USSR. Book chapter viewable online at National Academy Press site.
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309057345/html/156.html
Discussion of impact of changing life expectancy on policy decisions
Canadian government report on impact of changes in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy
http://policyresearch.gc.ca/page.asp?pagenm=v6n2_art_05
Ageing through the Ages
MacLennan and Sellers present an overview of human ageing from prehistoric time to the present.
http://mac-huwis.lut.ac.uk/~wis/papers/ProcRCollPhysEdinb1999.html
Review of The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging
Generally favorable review of a book by Olshansky and Carnes that argues that large increases in life expectancy are unlikely in near future wihout fundamental advances in the science of aging. (Requires registration, but is reprinted in entirety on Amazo
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/344/12/941
Healthy Life Expectancy
Offers an international comparison of disability adjusted life expectancies.
http://www3.who.int/whosis/hale/hale.cfm?path=whosis,hale&language=english