Global Health Care Issues

Spatial modification of the Lee-Carter mortality model using cluster detection methods improves forecasting accuracy by capturing age-time patterns that conventional approaches miss.

Analysis of 41 countries shows how skewness and kurtosis of age-at-death distributions explain mortality compression trends and lifespan disparity patterns from 1751–2019.

Framework that borrows mortality patterns across similar population subgroups to improve accuracy of long-term mortality rate forecasts using hierarchical clustering methods.

Analysis of premature mortality and years of life lost from PM2.5, NO2, and ozone exposure in Israel from 2015-2023, compared to 41 European countries using updated WHO guidelines.

Framework integrating preventive health spending and portfolio optimization to maximize lifetime utility, showing how health investments reduce mortality risk and interact with wealth decisions.

Analysis of Nepal census data reveals accelerated population aging from 5.0% to 10.2% older adults, with marked provincial and gender disparities requiring differentiated policy approaches.