Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the … first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in … average effects conceal underlying heterogeneity: we examine if the infant mortality effect offsets or reinforces one …

This study deals with the impact of ageing populations and changes in their health status on health care and the …, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. In the first projection method, health care utilization … projection shows the impact of demographic change and increasing life expectancy on the utilization of health care services. In …

This paper was prepared as Work Package IV of the AHEAD project – Ageing, Health Status and the Determinants of Health … Expenditure – which has received financing from the European Commission under the 6th Research Framework Programme. The purpose of … this work package was to build up a picture of the movements in health status of the elderly population of each country in …

This paper reviews the latest evidence of the effects of early life circumstances on old-age health, distinguishing in … the impact of the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) on the health of older adults to perform a meta-analysis and discuss … how various circumstances may coalesce and manifest in shaping long-term health. …

disease early in life play an important role in adult health and survival later in life and that the differences in life span …

additional years of life between work and retirement is questionable. Considering mortality and health status, we question the … for given mortality rates; the other using the work/health relationship measured at certain ages to predict the health … health status that can be considered reasonably compatible with work. If this is not the case, the idea of sharing these …