Sentence examples for expectancy standard from inspiring English sources

Likewise, in accounting for the narrowing of the black-white gap in life expectancy, standard methods do not tell us whether the contribution of a particular cause is due to convergence in incidence, to convergence in the mean age at death, or to a combination of the two.

As a Glaswegian, I'm not convinced that I really have so much more in common with people in Seville than I do with those in Kabul, who at least have a similar life expectancy and standard of club football.

Most patients will present with incurable disease with a poor life expectancy after standard therapy treatments [ 3].

However, recent decades have seen a rapid increase in industrialisation in the previous third world countries that are now approaching western countries in their life expectancy, living standards and energy consumption.

Whereas global life expectancy is the standard metric to measure the progress of countries toward combating disease resulting in prolonged life, another statistic, the healthy life expectancy (HALE) summarizes mortality and non-fatal outcomes of disease (e.g. longevity) in a single measure of averaged population health [ 4].

Introducing its latest figures, the United Nations Development Programme explained how a combination of factors, including life expectancy, education and standard of living, helps establish whether a country provides 'an environment in which people can develop their full potential and lead productive, creative lives in accord with their needs and interests'.

Sweden, like its Scandinavian neighbors, is proud of a social model based on cooperative labor relations and a cradle-to-grave welfare system that is credited with having pushed it to the top of international tables of life expectancy, education and standard of living.

These indicators include the Human Development Index, the Human Poverty Index and the Happy Planet Index, which include, in various combinations, the statistics of life expectancy, human education, standard of living and ecological footprint.

Previous research has identified Human Development Index (a national index of life expectancy, literacy and standard of living) as a variable that was significantly related to fishing pressure (25).

When discounted at 5% per annum, mean life expectancy in the standard care cohort was 9.52 years versus 9.54 years in the HMI cohort (P < 0.001).

In summary, this study suggests that letrozole is a reasonable alternative in elderly women with ER/PR-positive invasive breast cancer who are either unfit with limited life expectancy or decline standard therapy.