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Life expectancy vs. health care spending

Life Expectancy in the #EU and the #US

Income & life expectancy around the world

The Great Escape from heart and other diseases over the last 50 years

Dying to be famous: the mortality rates of 1489 rock and pop stars, 1956 and 2006.

Rock/pop star mortality increases relative to the general population with time since fame. Increases are greater in North American stars and those with solo careers.

Relative mortality begins to recover 25 years after fame in European but not North American stars. Those reaching fame from 1980 onwards have better survival rates.

For deceased stars, cause of death was more likely to be substance use or risk-related in those with more adverse childhood experiences.

Those reaching fame from 1980 onwards have better survival rates.

For deceased stars, cause of death was more likely to be substance use or risk-related in those with more adverse childhood experiences.

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via Dying to be famous: retrospective cohort study of rock and pop star mortality and its association with adverse childhood experiences. – PubMed – NCBI.

The Quantity and Quality of Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, American and English & Welsh Lives, 1965 to 1995

Figure 1: increase in real GDP and increase in real GDP plus life expectancy GDP increase equivalent, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA and England & Wales, 1965 to 1995

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Source: Becker, Gary S., Tomas J. Philipson, and Rodrigo R. Soares. The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality, NBER Working Paper No. 9765 (June 2003).

GDP per capita is usually used to proxy for the quality of life of individuals living in different countries. Becker and his co-authors computed a "full" growth rate that incorporates the gains in health and life expectancy.

Figure 1 shows that New Zealand was way behind the other countries in improvements in the quantity and quality of life between 1965 and 1995. This brings new meaning to the two decades of lost growth between 1973 and 1995. Canada should refer to 1965 to 1995 as its golden era.

The impact of religion and science on life expectancy

Improvements in life expectancy since 1900

Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy by gender, Anglo-Saxon countries

Figure 1: life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of women, Anglo-Saxon countries, 2010

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Source: OECD family database.

Figure 2: life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of men, Anglo-Saxon countries, 2010

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Source: OECD family database

The Great Escape is increasing life expectancy at all ages

Increases in global life expectancy by region and cause

via Global, regional, and national age–sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 – The Lancet.

The Great Escape: winning the war on disease

Via What Oxfam doesn’t want you to know: global capitalism means less poverty than ever – Spectator Blogs.

The Great Escape and the supply of octogenarians

The Great Escape in one chart

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