The suicide epidemic in Korea is an anomaly, and suicide rates are high for both men and women, with no signs of decreasing. Yet we do not know the extent to which suicide has reduced life expectancy in Korea. OBJECTIVE We investigated whether and to what extent the rapid increase in ...
The purpose of this study was to examine the degree to which the magnitude of income inequality in life expectancy according to different categorization across beneficiary types under the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) in Korea. We used population and death data in 2017 from the National...
BMC Public Health (2023) 23:1750 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16682-9 BMC Public Health RESEARCH Open Access Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of Korean registered disabled by disability type in 2014–2018: Korea National Rehabilitation Center database Hyuna Jang1,2,...
Over the last decade, social inequality in Korea have becomes intensified in multiple dimensions, which could impact on distribution of population health. Based on life expectancy (LE) and healthy life expectancy (HLE), we examined the health inequality cross social groups by gender and education ...
Projected female life expectancy in South Korea is followed by those in France, Japan and Spain at around 88 years, the study showed. For men, the five counties with the highest life expectancy at birth in 2030 are South Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Canada and the Netherlands, all at arou...
Life expectancy is a measure of how long the average person lives in a given country, and these are the countries with the highest and lowest life expectancies.
Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970-2016: a systematic analysis for the Gl... Background: Detailed assessments of mortality patterns, particularly age-specific mortality, represent a crucial input that enables health ...
The research team calculated life expectancy at birth and predicted a baby girl born in South Korea in 2030 is expected to live 90.8 years. There is a 90-percent probability that life expectancy at birth among South Korean women in 2030 will be higher than 86.7 years, the same as the high...
Aha, yes, but new analysis by the World Health Organization and Imperial College London predicts that it won't always be so. Now, they analysed 35 industrialised countries and found that by the year 2030 South Korea will be the leaders –...
Definition: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2)...