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POROVNANIE ŠTRUKTÚRY ÚMRTNOSTI PODĽA VEKU V REGIÓNOCH SVETOVEJ ZDRAVOTNÍCKEJ ORGANIZÁCIE / COMPARISON OF MORTALITY STRUCTURE BY AGE IN THE REGIONS OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATIONSabó, Martin January 2017 (has links)
The presented diploma thesis deals with the comparison of mortality structure by age and includes 194 member countries of the World Health Organization. The aim of the thesis is to confront mortality development in these countries with the help of individual mortality characteristics. At the beginning of this thesis are defined demographic terms and indicators, data sources and calculation methodology. The databases of the World Health Organization and the World Bank were used as the main source of data and all countries were divided into six world regions. The second chapter is devoted to selected types of mortality, namely neonatal and infant, under-five mortality, maternal mortality and adult mortality. After that, the work focuses on life expectancy of 0 and 60 years of age divided per sex. The last chapter is devoted to the optimum retirement age in selected countries. Conclusion connects of the all above well, and we can find there comprehensive information about difference of mortality practically all over the world.
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Stanovení věkové hranice odchodu do starobní penze / Establishing Old Age Pension Retirement Age LimitsSvoboda, Radovan January 2017 (has links)
Establishing retirement age is a key issue for each and every pension system. How this issue is resolved is palpable for every citizen and also has a major political dimension. The main reasons for increasing the retirement age - which is occurring in all European countries - are demographic development and economic factors, such as higher life expectancy, increasing the proportion of pensioners to the number of economically active people, and the growing costs for the pension system. This thesis describes the current reform steps in Europe and provides a thorough analysis of factors which are relevant for dealing with retirement age issues. The analysis is based on official statistical data, which are scrutinized even in mutual correlations. The need for an interdisciplinary approach which eliminates unilateral vistas and biased application of data lifted out of context and long-term trends is emphasized. Special attention is paid to the genesis and current solutions regarding the retirement age in the Czech Republic. This thesis offers reasoning which supports setting 65 years of age as the statutory retirement age, including the mechanism for increasing it depending on how the life expectancy factor develops. How the retirement age issues are dealt with is based on the fundamental ethical...
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Nouvelles perspectives sur la longévité humaine : étude longitudinale du lémurien genre Microcebus murinusTremblay, Marilyn-Anne 08 1900 (has links)
Le vieillissement des populations est une réalité incontournable des sociétés modernes, qui observent une augmentation inexorable de l’espérance de vie. L’un des obstacles à l’analyse de la mortalité chez l’humain tient au fait qu’il faut plus de cent ans pour que tous les individus d’une même génération décèdent. C’est pourquoi la biodémographie, un nouveau champ de recherche alliant la démographie et la biologie, se penche sur l’analyse des données de mortalité des primates, tels le lémurien genre Microcebus murinus. Les données pour cette espèce élevée en captivité proviennent principalement des livrets d’enregistrement des entrées et sorties de tous les individus du laboratoire MMDN du département de biologie de l’Université de Montpellier.
L’objectif principal de ce mémoire est de comparer les distributions des décès par âge pour le lémurien par sexe, ainsi que pour des populations humaines de différentes époques. L’approche par P-splines utilisée permet de dériver ces distributions à partir des taux de mortalité lissés. Différents indices sont calculés sur la mortalité : l’espérance de vie à l’âge de la maturité sexuelle, l’espérance de vie aux grands âges, l’âge médian au décès, ainsi que l’âge modal (i.e. le plus fréquent) au décès. Nos résultats indiquent que les femelles lémurien genre Microcebus murinus élevées en captivité vivent plus longtemps que les mâles, et ce pour tous les différents indices utilisés, contrairement à ce qui avait été rapporté dans la littérature. Cela est toutefois cohérent avec les différentes hypothèses qui supposent des durées de vies plus longues chez les femelles primates et chez les humaines. De plus, la comparaison de la mortalité chez les lémuriens et les humains montrent que la distribution des décès du lémurien se rapproche des sociétés pré-industrielles européennes.
Cette incursion dans la démographie d’une espèce animale contribuera l’avancement de ce tout nouveau champ de recherche qu’est la biodémographie. L’analyse plus approfondie de la longévité de primates à courtes durées de vie permettra de nous d’améliorer nos connaissances à long terme sur les mécanismes biologiques du vieillissement chez l’humain. / The aging of populations is an inescapable reality of modern societies, which observe an inexorable increase in life expectancy. One of the obstacles to the analysis of human mortality is the fact that it takes more than a hundred years for all individuals in a generation to die. For this reason, biodemography, a new field of research combining demography and biology, is looking at the analysis of mortality data from primates, such as the gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus). The data for this captive-bred species come mainly from the logbooks recording the entries and exits of all individuals in the MMDN laboratory of the Biology Department of the University de Montpellier.
The main objective of this thesis is to compare the distributions of deaths by age for the lemur by sex, as well as for human populations of different ages. The P-splines approach used makes it possible to derive these distributions from smoothed mortality rates. Different indicators are calculated on mortality: life expectancy at the age of sexual maturity, life expectancy at old age, median age of survival, and modal age at death. Our results indicate that female captive-bred gray mouse lemurs live longer than males for all the different indices used, contrary to what has been reported in the literature. This is however consistent with the different hypotheses that assume longer life spans in primate and human females. Moreover, the comparison of mortality in lemurs and humans shows that the distribution of lemur deaths is close to the European pre-industrial societies.
This incursion into the demography of an animal species will allow the advancement of this brand-new field of research that is biodemography. A more in-depth analysis of the longevity of short-lived primates will provide us with long-term information on the biological mechanisms of aging in humans.
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Identification of factors affecting the survival lifetime of HIV+ terminal patients in Albert Luthuli municipality of South Africa / Identification of factors affecting the survival lifetime of HIV positive terminal patients in Albert Luthuli municipality of South AfricaBengura, Pepukai 19 December 2019 (has links)
The objective of the study was to identify the factors that affect the survival lifetime of HIV+ terminal patients in rural district hospitals of Albert Luthuli municipality in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. A cohort of HIV+ terminal patients was retrospectively followed from 2010 to 2017 until a patient died, was lost to follow-up or was still alive at the end of the observation period. Nonparametric survival analysis and semiparametric survival analysis methods were used to analyse the data. Through Cox proportional hazards regression modelling, it was found that ART adherence (poor, fair, good), Age, Follow-up mass, Baseline sodium, Baseline viral load, Follow CD4 count by Treatment (Regimen 1) interaction and Follow-up lymphocyte by TB history (yes, no) interaction had significant effects on survival lifetime of HIV+ terminal patients (p-values<0.1). Furthermore, through quantile regression modelling, it was found that short, medium and long survival times of HIV+ patients, respectively represented by the 0.1, 0.5 and 0.9 quantiles, were not necessarily significantly affected by the same factors. / Statistics / M. Sc. (Statistics)
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Higher male mortality in Russia : a synthesis of the literatureMuraveva, Anna 19 December 2013 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Russian demographic statistics reflect the persistence of a dramatically wide gender gap in life expectancy and mortality over the last decades - about twice that found in the developed world. On average, men in Russia live 12 years less than Russian women, and 14.5 years less than men in Western Europe. This thesis provides an overview and synthesis of the most recently available literature that addresses the persistent gender gap in mortality and life expectancy in Russia. I reviewed the prevalent behavioral and social-structural drivers that explain the causes of higher male mortality in contemporary Russia. Especially, I looked at how the conceptualization of the male social role and related norms that shape masculine behavior contribute to high male mortality in Russia. The study reveals that men’s unhealthy, risky behavior and their higher vulnerability to stress are considered to be linked to their gendered social identity which is created and reproduced by the social-structural context of the Russia’s society.
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Health for community dwelling older people : trends, inequalities, needs and care in rural VietnamVan Hoi, Le January 2011 (has links)
Background InVietnam, the proportion of people aged 60 and above has increased rapidly in recent decades. The majority live in rural areas where socioeconomic status is more disadvantaged than in urban areas.Vietnam’s economic status is improving but disparities in income and living conditions are widening between groups and regions. A consistent and emerging danger of communicable diseases and an increase of non-communicable diseases exist concurrently. The emigration of young people and the impact of other socioeconomic changes leave more elderly on their own and with less family support. Introduction of user fees and development of a private sector improve the coverage and quality of health care but increase household health expenditures and inequalities in health care. Life expectancy at birth has increased, but not much is known about changes during old age. There is a lack of evidence, particularly in rural settings, about health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among older people within the context of socioeconomic changes and health-sector reform. Knowledge of long-term elderly care needs in the community and the relevant models are still limited. To provide evidence for developing new policies and models of care, this thesis aimed to assess general health status, health care needs, and perspectives on future health care options for community-dwelling older people. Methods An abridged life table was used to estimate cohort life expectancies at old age from longitudinal data collected by FilaBavi DSS during 1999-2006. This covered 7,668 people aged 60 and above with 43,272 person-years. A 2007 cross-sectional survey was conducted among people aged 60 and over living in 2,240 households that were randomly selected from the FilaBavi DSS. Interviews used a structured questionnaire to assess HRQoL, daily care needs, and willingness to use and to pay for models of care. Participant and household socioeconomic characteristics were extracted from the 2007 DSS re-census. Differences in life expectancy are examined by socioeconomic factors. The EQ-5D index is calculated based on the time trade-off tariff. Distributions of study subjects by study variables are described with 95% confidence intervals. Multivariate analyses are performed to identify socioeconomic determinants of HRQoL, need of support, ADL index, and willingness to use and pay for models of care. In addition, four focus group discussions with the elderly, their household members, and community association representatives were conducted to explore perspectives on the use of services by applying content analysis. Results Life expectancy at age 60 increased by approximately one year from 1999-2002 to 2003-2006, but tended to decrease in the most vulnerable groups. There is a wide gap in life expectancy by poverty status and living arrangement. The sex gap in life expectancy is consistent across all socioeconomic groups and is wider among the more disadvantaged populations. The EQ-5D index at old age is 0.876. Younger age groups, position as household head, working, literacy, and belonging to better wealth quintiles are determinants of higher HRQoL. Ageing has a primary influence on HRQoL that is mainly due to reduction in physical (rather than mental) functions. Being a household head and working at old age are advantageous for attaining better HRQoL in physical rather than psychological terms. Economic conditions affect HRQoL through sensory rather than physical functions. Long-term living conditions are more likely to affect HRQoL than short-term economic conditions. Dependence in instrumental or intellectual activities of daily living (ADLs) is more common than in basic ADLs. People who need complete help are fewer than those who need some help in almost all ADLs. Over two-fifths of people who needed help received enough support in all ADL dimensions. Children and grand-children are confirmed to be the main caregivers. Presence of chronic illness, age groups, sex, educational level, marital status, household membership, working status, household size, living arrangement, residential area, household wealth, and poverty status are determinants of the need for care. Use of mobile teams is the most requested service; the fewest respondents intend to use a nursing centre. Households expect to use services for their elderly to a greater extent than did the elderly themselves. Willingness to use services decreases when potential fees increase. The proportion of respondents who require free services is 2 to 3 times higher than those willing to pay full cost. Households are willing to pay more for day care and nursing centres than are the elderly. The elderly are more willing to pay for mobile teams than are their households. ADL index, age group, sex, literacy, marital status, living arrangement, head of household status, living area, working status, poverty and household wealth are factors related to willingness to use services. Conclusions There is a trend of increasing life expectancy at older ages in ruralVietnam. Inequalities in life expectancy exist between socioeconomic groups. HRQoL at old age is at a high level, but varies substantially according to socioeconomic factors. An unmet need of daily care for older people remains. Family is the main source of support for care. Need for care is in more demand among disadvantaged groups. Development of a social network for community-based long-term elderly care is needed. The network should focus on instrumental and intellectual ADLs rather than basic ADLs. Home-based care is more essential than institutionalized care. Community-based elderly care will be used and partly paid for if it is provided by the government or associations. The determinants of elderly health and care needs should be addressed by appropriate social and health policies with greater targeting of the poorest and most disadvantaged groups. Building capacity for health professionals and informal caregivers, as well as support for the most vulnerable elderly groups, is essential for providing and assessing the services. / Aging and Living Conditions Program / Vietnam-Sweden Collaborative Program in Health, SIDA/Sarec
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