The Global Health and Well-Being
1. The Increasing Life Expectancy and Aging Populations
2. The Increased Incidence of Noncommunicable Diseases
4. The Rising Cost of Care and Shortage of Health Care Workers
5. The Transformation of Social Insurance Systems
Increasing Life Expectancy and Aging Populations
Astonishing increases in life expectancy in tandem with falling fertility rates are changing the world demographic landscape drastically. In the past 50 years, life expectancy at birth has been growing steadily across the world from an average of 46.5 years in 1955 to 65.2 years in 2002. This degree of improvement in life expectancy varies from 9 years in developed countries to 17 years in the high-mortality ...
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