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Life expectancy and national income in Europe, 1900-2008: an update of Preston’s analysis

Author(s) -

Johan P. Mackenbach,

Caspar W. N. Looman

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyt122

Subject(s) - life expectancy , gross national income , demography , per capita income , measures of national income and output , per capita , demographic economics , gross domestic product , geography , gerontology , economics , economic growth , medicine , population , sociology , market economy

In the past, upward shifts of the so-called Preston curve, which relates life expectancy to national income, have contributed importantly to worldwide increases in life expectancy. These shifts were due to rapid diffusion of knowledge and technology for infectious disease control from high-income to low-income countries. We assessed to what extent life expectancy growth in Europe has been accompanied by upward shifts in the relation between national income and life expectancy in later parts of the 20th century, when progress in cardiovascular disease control was the main driver of life expectancy growth.

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