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<p>Over the last 30 years, significant geopolitical, social, and economic changes have impacted the OECD members and candidates, which has led to a significant improvement in the quality of life and life expectancy, with the reduction of the potential years of life lost one of the indicators of reduced mortality observed across the group. On the geopolitical side, the admission of the Baltic countries and their standardization of the metrics to track demographics more aligned with the internationally accepted practices, on the social side; the increase in life expectancy poses challenges to the care of the elders but also the extension on the age within the labor force and lastly, on the economic changes; the ongoing increase of income and GDP has led to an expanded access of care including goods and services. This paper explores the use of mortality information and potential years of life lost as a beacon to point toward the economic burden of poor health and its related mortality.</p>
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Over the last 30 years, significant geopolitical, social, and economic changes have impacted the OECD members and candidates, which has led to a significant improvement in the quality of life and life expectancy, with the reduction of the potential years of life lost one of the indicators of reduced mortality observed across the group. On the geopolitical side, the admission of the Baltic countries and their standardization of the metrics to track demographics more aligned with the internationally accepted practices, on the social side; the increase in life expectancy poses challenges to the care of the elders but also the extension on the age within the labor force and lastly, on the economic changes; the ongoing increase of income and GDP has led to an expanded access of care including goods and services. This paper explores the use of mortality information and potential years of life lost as a beacon to point toward the economic burden of poor health and its related mortality.

Potential Years of Life Lost and Its Implication on Economic Output: Assessment of OECD Members and Candidate Countries for the Period 1993-2018

Valahian Journal of Economic Studies

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Over the last 30 years, significant geopolitical, social, and economic changes have impacted the OECD members and candidates, which has led to a significant...

Potential Years of Life Lost and Its Implication on Economic Output: Assessment of OECD Members and Candidate Countries for the Period 1993-2018

Published Online: Jan 29, 2024

Page range: 15 - 22

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/vjes-2023-0012

Keywords
potential years of life lost, burden of mortality, OECD, economic epidemiology

© 2023 William H. Leiva Perez, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Potential Years of Life Lost and Its Implication on Economic Output: Assessment of OECD Members and Candidate Countries for the Period 1993-2018

Published Online: Jan 29, 2024

Page range: 15 - 22

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/vjes-2023-0012

Keywordspotential years of life lost, burden of mortality, OECD, economic epidemiology

© 2023 William H. Leiva Perez, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
potential years of life lost, burden of mortality, OECD, economic epidemiology