Search results for "Healthy Life Years"
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Tackling frailty and functional decline: Background of the action group A3 of the European innovation partnership for active and healthy ageing
2018
Ageing populations represent a challenge to the sustainability of current healthcare systems. The need to balance these demographic changes with gains in healthy life years and quality of life (QoL) constitutes an additional challenge. Aware of this, the European Commission (EC) launched the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIPonAHA) in 2012. The EIPonAHA is an interdisciplinary and cross-sector initiative involving more than 3000 partners with two specific objectives: to increase the healthy life expectancy of Europeans by two years by 2020, while increasing their QoL. The initiatives of the EIPonAHA have been organized according to six thematic action groups (…
Traffic-related environmental risk factors and their impact on oxidative stress and cardiovascular health
2020
Abstract The adverse effects of the environment on health are increasingly recognized. The WHO estimates that noise accounts for 1 million annually lost healthy life years in Western Europe due to increased incidence of hypertension, heart failure, myocardial infarction, and stroke. An even more severe health impact was reported for air pollution (e.g., PM2.5) accounting for up to 800,000 annual excess deaths in Europe. Adverse effects of air pollution are mechanistically better characterized, but there is still a great need to understand the pathophysiology of air pollution-induced cardiovascular disease, especially the potential synergistic effects together with noise. With the present bo…
Editorial on the special issue “Private Life Choices, Employment and Health”
2013
The health conditions of the German population have been subject to signifi cant changes in the past. Within the last forty years, for example, the life expectancy at birth of both men and women reported by the German Federal Statistical Offi ce rose by more than eight years. In recent years, chances of survival in the middle and old ages were responsible for the increase in life expectancy. In this respect – and to an extent never seen before – it is nowadays possible to spend one’s lifetime actively within the family and productively on the labour market. However, in times of a shrinking population, changes of the conditions on the labour market and new arrangements of private life choice…
Healthy and active pre-retirement and retirement ages: elderly inequality in Latvia
2019
Pre-retirement and senior population groups are more affected by activity limitations, unemployment and bad perceived health than population in active ages. Data for Latvia and other EU countries demonstrate a warning situation – socio-economic inequalities among elderly are not diminishing as fast as was expected. The aim of the paper is to analyse healthy and active life in pre-retirement and retirement ages to detect changes and inequalities complying with active ageing and public health. Analysis is based on Population Census and SILC data on national, regional and smaller territorial level. Regression models are used to study causal links and relations between the underlying social and…