Avoidable Mortality

V. Key Health Policy Issues >> A. Burden of Illness >> Avoidable Mortality (last update 8.5.24)

Total Deaths, by Cause

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Avoidable Causes of Death

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Mortality Risk

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Micromorts

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Life Expectancy

Life Expectancy and Economic Development

• Haacker, Markus.  Contribution of Increased Life Expectancy to Living Standards.  The paper provides an analysis of the contribution of increasing life expectancy to living standards across countries. Building on an intertemporal utility framework and the literature on the value of statistical life, it analyzes contributions of economic growth and increasing life expectancy to welfare for 20 countries from 1870, offers an analysis with a near-global scope from 1950, and covers the adverse implications of a negative health shock (HIV/AIDS). Various measures of life expectancy are explored, and the implications of different methods of discounting are discussed.