Healthy Aging, Healthy Life Years Lost and Health Expenditure Allocation
Front Matter
Pages 7-7
Relation of the Weibull Shape Parameter with the Healthy Life Years Lost Estimates: Analytical Derivation and Estimation from an Extended Life Table
Christos H. Skiadas, Charilaos Skiadas
Pages 9-23
Direct Healthy Life Expectancy Estimates from Life Tables with a Sullivan Extension. Bridging the Gap Between HALE and Eurostat Estimates
Christos H. Skiadas, Charilaos Skiadas
Pages 25-42
Modeling the Health Expenditure in Japan, 2011. A Healthy Life Years Lost Methodology
Christos H. Skiadas, Charilaos Skiadas
Pages 43-52
Healthy Ageing in Czechia
Tomáš Fiala, Jitka Langhamrová
Pages 53-64
Evolution of Systems with Power-Law Memory: Do We Have to Die? (Dedicated to the Memory of Valentin Afraimovich)
Mark Edelman
Pages 65-85
Mortality Modeling and Applications
Front Matter
Pages 87-87
Application of Structural Equation Modeling to Infant Mortality Rate in Egypt
Fatma Abdelkhalek, Marianna Bolla
Pages 89-99
Modeling of Mortality in Elderly by Lung Cancer in the Northeast of Brazil
João Batista Carvalho, Neir Antunes Paes
Pages 101-110
Demographics of the Russian Pension Reform
Dalkhat M. Ediev
Pages 111-131
Using the Developing Countries Mortality Database (DCMD) to Probabilistically Evaluate the Completeness of Death Registration at Old Ages
Nan Li, Hong Mi, Xiaotong Tang
Pages 133-149
Mortality Developments in Greece from the Cohort Perspective
Konstantinos N. Zafeiris, Anastasia Kostaki, Byron Kotzamanis
Pages 151-167
On Demographic Approach of the BGGM Distribution Parameters on Italy and Sweden
Panagiotis Andreopoulos, Alexandra Tragaki
Pages 169-185
Alcohol Consumption in Selected European Countries
Jana Vrabcová, Kornélia Svačinová, Markéta Pechholdová
Pages 187-200
Birth-Death Process, Self-Perceived Age and Gender Differences
Front Matter
Pages 201-201
Modelling Monthly Births and Deaths Using Seasonal Forecasting Methods as an Input for Population Estimates
Jorge Miguel Bravo, Edviges Coelho
Pages 203-222
Births by Order and Childlessness in the Post-socialist Countries
Flip Hon, Jitka Langhamrová
Pages 223-233
On the Evaluation of ‘Self-perceived Age’ for Europeans and Americans
Apostolos Papachristos, Georgia Verropoulou
Pages 235-248
Theoretical Issues and Applications
Front Matter
Pages 249-249
Spatio-Temporal Aspects of Community Well-Being in Multivariate Functional Data Approach
Włodzimierz Okrasa, Mirosław Krzyśko, Waldemar Wołyński
Pages 251-273
Properties and Dynamics of the Beta Gompertz Generalized Makeham Distribution
Panagiotis Andreopoulos, Alexandra Tragaki, George Antonopoulos, Fragkiskos G. Bersimis
Pages 275-288
Increasing Efficiency in the EBT Algorithm
Tin Nwe Aye, Linus Carlsson
Pages 289-317
Psychometric Validation of Constructs Defined by Ordinal-Valued Items
Anastasia Charalampi, Catherine Michalopoulou, Clive Richardson
Pages 319-333
Robust Minimal Markov Model for Dengue Virus Type 3
Jesús E. García, V. A. González-López
Pages 335-346
Determining Influential Factors in Spatio-temporal Models
Rebecca Nalule Muhumuza, Olha Bodnar, Joseph Nzabanita, Rebecca N. Nsubuga
Pages 347-357
Describing Labour Market Dynamics Through Non Homogeneous Markov System Theory
Maria Symeonaki, Glykeria Stamatopoulou
Pages 359-373
Life-Time, Survival, Pension, Labor Force and Further Estimates
Front Matter
Pages 375-375
The Wide Variety of Regression Models for Lifetime Data
Chrys Caroni
Pages 377-383
Analysing the Risk of Bankruptcy of Firms: Survival Analysis, Competing Risks and Multistate Models
Francesca Pierri, Chrys Caroni
Pages 385-394
A Bayesian Modeling Approach to Private Preparedness Behavior Against Flood Hazards
Pedro Araújo, Gilvan Guedes, Rosangela Loschi
Pages 395-408
Assessing Labour Market Mobility in Europe
Maria Symeonaki, Glykeria Stamatopoulou
Pages 409-417
The Implications of Applying Alternative-Supplementary Measures of the Unemployment Rate to Subpopulations and Regions: Evidence from the European Union Labour Force Survey for Southern Europe, 2008–2015
Aggeliki Yfanti, Catherine Michalopoulou, Stelios Zachariou
Pages 419-433
Reverse Mortgages: Risks and Opportunities
E. Di Lorenzo, G. Piscopo, M. Sibillo, R. Tizzano
Pages 435-442
Estimating the Health State at Retirement: A Stochastic Modeling Approach
Christos H. Skiadas, Charilaos Skiadas
Pages 443-452

This book provides theoretical and applied material for estimating vital parts of demography and health issues including the healthy aging process along with calculating the healthy life years lost to disability. It further includes the appropriate methodology for the optimum health expenditure allocation. Through providing data analysis, statistical and stochastic methodology, probability approach and important applications, the book explores topics such as aging and mortality, birth-death processes, self-perceived age, life-time and survival as well as pension and labor-force. By providing a methodological approach to health problems in demography and society including and quantifying important parameters, this book is a valuable guide for researchers, theoreticians and practitioners from various disciplines.