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1) Living longer? Living better?: estimates of life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in Colorado
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Health watch volume no. 82
Pub. Date
2012.
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Pub. Date
2018
Description
An interactive platform for visualizing geographic disparities for selected social determinants of health, life expectancy estimates, and key health conditions/outcomes across Colorado. Specific areas covered include: population density, life expectancy, age, disability, education, employment, income/poverty, language, race/ethnicity, asthma, diabetes, suicide, low birth weight, drug overdose, low birth weight, and teen fertility.
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[2020]
Description
"This book documents the decline of white-working class lives over the last half-century and examines the social and economic forces that have slowly made these lives more difficult. Case and Deaton argue that market and political power in the United States have moved away from labor towards capital-as unions have weakened and politics have become more favorable to business, corporations have become more powerful. Consolidation in some American industries,...
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Pub. Date
1996
Description
"How long can humans live? Is immortality possible? Just what is the aging process? The aging and inevitable death of the human body have inspired more myths and outrageous quackery than anything else subject to scientific inquiry. . . . Now comes a most fascinating book, insightful and scholarly, to provide what answers have emerged so far."--San Francisco ChronicleHere, at last, preeminent cell biologist Leonard Hayflick presents the truth about...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Presents an illustrated overview of the diversity of life on earth and the lifespan of each species. Organized from the shortest life span to the longest, the entries offer information on over 230 species. Features full-color photographs throughout, a glossary, maps, diagrams, and sidebars on evolution, habitats, food webs, and extinction.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"As a species, humans have doubled their life expectancy in one hundred years. Medical breakthroughs, public health institutions, rising standards of living, and the other advances of modern life have given each person about 20,000 extra days on average. This book attempts to help the reader understand where that progress came from and what forces keep people alive longer. The author also considers how to avoid decreases in life expectancy as public...
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