Special Collection 2 - Article 2 | Pages 11–44

Background The literature on healthy longevity has typically focused on average values (i.e., healthy life expectancy). Recent studies have started to expand this focus by investigating the whole heal...

Background The literature on healthy longevity has typically focused on average values (i.e., healthy life expectancy). Recent studies have started to expand this focus by investigating the whole heal...

An Arriaga decomposition partitions differences in life expectancy into contributions from mortality rate differences in each age. A Kitagawa decomposition partitions a difference between two weighte...

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Objective Gender gaps in healthy life expectancy are frequently used as indicators of health inequality between women and men. However, total gaps can be misleading—masking critical disparities such a...

Residential mobility is a possible strategy to cope with health challenges in later life. However, little research has examined whether and how health decline triggers residential mobility and whethe...

As countries worldwide experience population aging, understanding not just how long people live, but how many of those years are spent in good health, has ...

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Between 1920 and 1940, fertility dropped below replacement level in many Western countries. In today's scholarly literature, the drop is usually explained as a temporary reaction to the exceptional...