Are global and regional improvements in life expectancy and in child, adult and senior survival slowing?

Improvements in life expectancy have been considerable over the past hundred years. Forecasters have taken to applying historical trends under an assumption of continuing improvements in life expectancy in the future. A linear mixed effects model was used to estimate the trends in global and regiona...

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Main Authors: Ryan J Hum, Stéphane Verguet, Yu-Ling Cheng, Anita M McGahan, Prabhat Jha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4436293?pdf=render