The longevity revolution, marked by unprecedented gains in life expectancy with the prospect of continued increases, faces a similar dilemma: "It ain't just Social Security and Medicare".
Elsewhere, we have discussed the ultimate reasons for the persistence of relatively early parenthood in more deprived neighbourhoods, which we argued to be the combination of relatively short healthy life expectancy with limited economic prospects.
In our earlier work, we suggested that those interested in influencing the rate of early childbearing need to pay attention to the ultimate causes – short life expectancies and poor economic prospects – which favour generally early childbearing in these communities [1] (see also [48] for this argument in the context of health interventions more generally).
The 1999 UN Human Development Report, published last week, looks at life expectancy, wealth, literacy and educational prospects to work out how good - or bad - life is for 174 countries.
In Australia though, college isn't the American fantasy of unlimited freedom to party, drink, and fuck without a thought for your job prospects and/or life expectancy.
While the majority of patients with cancer want information on their survival prospects and life expectancy, 2 3 conveying this information can be challenging.
Young people also bear more financial risk in adulthood due to a decrease in welfare benefits, increased life expectancy and uncertain economic and job prospects.
Having first-hand knowledge of explosive secrets about people like Frank and Claire doesn't seem to help your career prospects...or your life expectancy.
With the prospect of longer life expectancy, quality of life is likely to be a determining factor for treatment compliance.
To obtain congruent predictions using IGT and SGT, Ahn et al. modified their "expectancy utility function" [ 39] with the "prospect theory" [ 3, 26] after a reevaluation of SGT.
