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What is Life Expectancy at Birth

Chapter 14
Technological Breakthroughs and Future Business Opportunities in Education, Health, and Outer Space
The number of years a newborn infant could expect to live if prevailing patterns of age-specific mortality rates at the time of birth stay the same throughout the infant’s life.
Published in Chapter:
Toward Eradicating All Diseases
Qing-Ping Ma (The University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6772-2.ch014
Abstract
Progress in biomedical sciences and engineering will take mankind closer to a world without disease. The objective of this chapter is to review and forecast research and technologies that contribute to eliminating all diseases. In addition to improved traditional therapeutics such as medicinal chemicals, antibiotics, vaccines, and antibodies, DNA and RNA therapeutics will play key roles in addressing genetic, infectious, and chronic diseases by decreasing disease facilitating proteins or increasing disease suppressing proteins. Nanorobots will find and treat thrombosis and vascular stenosis caused by lipid deposits in the intima of arteries, as well as remove diseased tissues and repair injured tissues. Nanorobots will be much less invasive than keyhole surgical operations, and patients need almost no time to recover from their nanorobotic procedures. Thorough understanding of regeneration and repair mechanisms of injured tissues may make it feasible to regenerate injured or aged tissues and organs and to transplant organs grown in vitro.
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Chapter 7
The Determinants of Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Aggregated and Disaggregated Panel Data of Developing Countries
The number of years newborn children would live if subject to the mortality risks prevailing for the cross-section of population at the time of their birth.
Published in Chapter: The Determinants of Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Aggregated and Disaggregated Panel Data of Developing Countries; From: Handbook of Research on Unemployment and Labor Market Sustainability in the Era of Globalization
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Chapter 12
On the Socio-Economic Impacts of the Difference Between Healthy and Sick Aging
The average number of years that a newborn can be expected to live, assuming that age-specific mortality levels remain constant. Life expectancy at birth is extremely influenced by high levels of infant mortality and therefore may be not so much informative about the survival of adults.
Published in Chapter: On the Socio-Economic Impacts of the Difference Between Healthy and Sick Aging; From: Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Impacts of Population Aging
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Chapter 7
The Effects of Population Aging and Life Expectancy on Economic Growth: The Case of Emerging Market Economies
It refers to if current conditions remain unchanged the number of years a new-born baby would live.
Published in Chapter: The Effects of Population Aging and Life Expectancy on Economic Growth: The Case of Emerging Market Economies; From: Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Impacts of Population Aging
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Chapter 6
Issues of Convergence: Some Evidences of SAARC Countries
Life expectancy at birth (LEB) indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.
Published in Chapter: Issues of Convergence: Some Evidences of SAARC Countries; From: Handbook of Research on Global Indicators of Economic and Political Convergence
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Chapter 18
Defense Expenditure and Its Impact on Health in the SAARC Countries
Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.
Published in Chapter: Defense Expenditure and Its Impact on Health in the SAARC Countries; From: Handbook of Research on Military Expenditure on Economic and Political Resources
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