National Academy of Medicine, Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity — new report says healthy longevity is the state in which years in good health approach the biological life span, with good physical, cognitive, and social functioning, and enables wellbeing across populations. However, major disruptors to healthy longevity include ageism, disease, poverty, pollution, and inequity. Webinar and toolkit also available.
Human Mortality database provides detailed mortality and population data for 40 countries; It’s mostly current through 2017, although some data is older. Information is updated as it becomes available. The main goal of the Human Mortality Database is to document the longevity revolution of the modern era and to facilitate research into its causes. The project is a collaboration between UC Berkeley and the Max Plank Institute in Germany.
Health United States 2017, with a special feature on mortality – CDC’s annual overview of national trends in health statistics. The report contains a Chartbook that presents trends and current information on selected measures of morbidity, mortality, health care utilization and access, health risk factors, prevention, health insurance, and personal health care expenditures. The Special Feature on Mortality examines when, why, and where individuals are dying in the United States. Data on life expectancy at birth are presented by sex, followed by data on death rates by age group. Leading causes of death for each age group are explored to describe mortality trends from infancy to old age. It also examines three causes of death that have contributed to life expectancy losses in recent years: drug overdoses, suicides, and chronic liver disease.
Mortality in the United States 2015
National Center for Health Statistics data brief, released in December 2016, on longevity and death, shows a slight decline from 2014.
The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life is a book that examines the challenges of our society with a growing aging population.