Original Source Download PDF: JAMA HealthspanLifespanGap_garmany_2024_oi_241395_1733259944.03263 Key Points Question What is the healthspan-lifespan gap, representing the number of years burdened by disease, in men and women across the world? Findings This cross-sectional study quantified healthspan-lifespan gaps among 183 World Health Organization member states. Globally, the mean healthspan-lifespan gap was 9.6 years, and women exhibited a mean 2.4-year larger gap than men, associated with a disproportionately larger burden of noncommunicable diseases in women. Meaning These findings suggest that the healthspan-lifespan
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September 20, 2024 | Australian, The: Web Edition Articles (Australia) Author/Byline: Steve Robson | Section: Inquirer 2240 Words Australians could be forgiven for thinking their health system is crumbling around them at the worst possible time. We read reports of patients dying while waiting for ambulances to arrive, or in the back of ramped ambulances queueing up outside emergency departments. The number of Australians waiting for surgery in our public hospitals has reached an unprecedented level. Outside of public hospitals,
Paul has offered three suggestions on what I could talk about tonight. First, an article in the Financial Times by Martin Wolf, about increased longevity, then a note on low productivity in hospitals and universities, and a third article about private health insurance and private hospitals on the Pearls and Irritations website by John Menadue. To these I could add another recent article on Pearls and Irritations by Steve Leeder, titled Keir Starmer may fix the NHS, but wholesale
Source: https://www.ft.com/content/a8f33209-3507-4364-98be-61b3bb464fbb#comments-anchor PDF: Increased longevity will bring profound social change Opinion Ageing Populations Increased longevity will bring profound social change People will have to work longer and pension systems will need to be transformed Martin Wolf May 13 2024 In the UK in 1965, the most common age of death was in the first year of life. Today the most common age to die is 87 years old. This startling statistic comes from a remarkable new book, The Longevity Imperative,
Contemporary, industrial healthcare systems have understandably been designed to be sharply focused on the treatment of human illness, with the domination of incentives focused on activity (e.g. fee-for-service medicine; activity-based funding) have been suggested as a major contributor to this orientation. While this has encouraged a form of innovation that has driven the unprecedented expansion of population lifespan, more recent decades have failed to deliver a concomitant dividend in healthspan. In Australia, the AIHW 2023 Burden of Disease Report