Public Health Expenditure and Life Expectancy: A Healthy Investment During the financial crisis and subsequent economic recession, life expectancy in Spain continued its growth trend, rising from 82.3 years in 2008 to 82.92 years in 2014. However, in a context of low mortality rates, it is also important to know about the evolution of time in which we live in good and bad health. Spain’s great regional heterogeneity and its decentralised public health system make it possible to observe how a var

Public Health Expenditure and Life Expectancy: A Healthy Investment

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They analyse the evolution of years lived with and without the most prevalent and disabling health conditions after the age of 50 in 17 Spanish Autonomous Communities in order to understand their association with several macro socioeconomic factors, public provision of health services, public health expenditure, and health-related behaviours.

they analyse the evolution of years lived with and without the most prevalent and disabling health conditions after the age of 50 in 17 Spanish Autonomous Communities in order to understand their association with several macro socioeconomic factors, public provision of health services, public health expenditure, and health-related behaviours.

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The effects of kinless-ness on loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic
Bruno Arpino (University of Florence), Christine Mair (University of Maryland), Nekehia Quashie (University of Rhode Island) and Radoslaw Antczak (SGH Warsaw School of Economics) analysed data on more than 35,000 adults aged 50 and older to examine if unpartnered and childless older adults reported more loneliness and how that changed over the course of the pandemic.

Bruno Arpino (University of Florence), Christine Mair (University of Maryland), Nekehia Quashie (University of Rhode Island) and Radoslaw Antczak (SGH Warsaw School of Economics) analysed data on more than 35,000 adults aged 50 and older from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to examine if unpartnered and childless older adults reported more loneliness and how that changed over the course of the pandemic.

Sonja Spitzer
Spitzer
Sonja
Ageing and Life Expectancy
Health
Working Life
Rosie Seaman
Seaman
Rosie
Ageing and Life Expectancy
Health
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Padyab
Mojgan
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