The life expectancy in Japan at birth increased from 74 years (72 years for males and 76 years for females) in 1973 to 83 years (79 years for males and 86 years for females) in 2011 (The World Bank, 2014). A previous study suggested that this increase might be due to better hygiene...
In this article, the author discusses the reasons of the high life expectancy rate in Japan. The author says that the high rate of life expentancy has been achieved by keeping Japan's health expenditure as gross domestic product's (GDP's) fraction under 8.5 % in 2008. He discusses the ...
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Life Expectancy In Japan and Incidence of Chronic Diseases The average life expectancy of Japanese citizens is significantly higher across the country than the life expectancy of the rest of the world. Japanranks number 1 in the world in life expectancy at 84 years of age, compared to 79 years...
Is a diet of fish, veg and fermented food responsible for Japan's impressive health and longevity? Discover the benefits of traditional Japanese food.
The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, but does this model apply in the case of a country like Japan, which is said to have closer family ties than other countries...
Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan. Edited by: Ko D, Haboush JK, Piggott JR. 2003, Berkeley: University of California Press, 142-169. Google Scholar Hajdu P, McKee M, Bojan F: Changes in premature mortality differentials by marital status in Hungary and in...
Education is vital in our life because it is the foundation on which we build everything else. First, though, let’s eliminate the notion that education is something formal linked to an institution. It’s not. Classrooms are not the start or end of human education. ...
The result is a healthy, long-lived population boasting the highest life expectancy in the world. Ad Feedback Narrowly beating residents of Japan and other “blue zones” such as Italy, men in Hong Kong are living,on average, up to 81.3 years and women even longer, 87.3 years, as of 20...