An increased life expectancy is associated to a nation's progress. Life expectancy at birth is 78 years in developed countries, 72 in Latin America, 70 in China, 63 in Eastern Europe and 51 in Africa. Chile is the Latin American country with the higher increment in life expectancy, reaching...
Life expectancy at birth: This entry contains the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year, if mortality at each age remains constant in the future. The entry includes total population as well as the male and female components. Life expectancy at birt...
Child mortalityObesityAtopic diseaseChild mental healthThis past century has seen a 15-fold decrease in child mortality and a 56% increase in life expectancy in the United States of America. A shift has occurred in morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases to that from unintentional injuries...
Life satisfaction is likely to benefit from help expectancy, as speculation posited in exchange theory. This theory emphasizes actual or speculative profit received to sustain life (Ogolsky & Monk,2018). As such, the theory can expect the contribution of positive expectancy to life satisfaction (K...
Edward N. Smolar MD 12Accesses Explore all metrics Abstract Obesity is a significant unsolved public health problem. Future treatments of obesity will involve application of neuroendocrine concepts that are reviewed in this paper. Author information ...
Life expectancy at birth is defined as how long, on average, a newborn can expect to live, if it would not be altered by death. If rates are falling, actual life spans will be higher than life expectancy calculated using current death rates. Gains in life expectancy at birth can be att...
Ovariohysterectomy is generally considered the method of choice in older females. In North America, it is also the most commonly used desexing procedure in young females, while ovariectomy without concurrent hysterectomy is generally considered the method of choice for desexing young females in ...
While many people with DMD meet the current standard in the United States of qualifying for an ICD on the basis of an ejection fraction less than 35%, published guidelines discourage use of ICDs for people with untreatable terminal illness or life-expectancy less than 6 months despite ICD ...
Current status of heart transplantation in children: update 2003 Heart transplant is an effective therapy for children with end-stage heart disease. Success of this treatment depends on coordination and careful communica... Blume,D Elizabeth - 《Pediatric Clinics of North America》 被引量: 69发表:...
A uniquc and unfortunate feature of the nutrition situation in South-Asian countries is that the incidence of low birth weight deliveries is as high as 34% (1990), ranging from 25% in Sri Lanka to 50% in Bangladesh (as against less than 7% in the countries of Europe and North America)...