Author: lwalker
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Audio conversation on Health Policy papers, published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity
To listen to the audio podcast from The Lancet Healthy Longevity, click here. Professor Andrew J.Scott discusses his two Health Policy papers, published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, on the importance of achieving a longevity society and longevity economy.
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The Lancet Healthy Longevity: The Longevity Society
As the demographic transition enters a new stage of a longevity transition, focus needs to extend beyond an ageing society towards a longevity society. An ageing society focuses on changes in the age structure of the population, whereas a longevity society seeks to exploit the advantages of longer lives through changes in how we age.…
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The Lancet Healthy Longevity: The Longevity Economy
The fact that people are on average living healthier, longer lives than previously has the potential to be positive for the economy, offsetting the negative economic effects of an ageing society. A longevity economy will see a shift in the mix of sectors in the economy, with both health and education expanding further and new…
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Lancet Healthy Longevity: A timely call to establish an international convention on the rights of older people
Global pandemics inevitably reveal many vulnerabilities in national and global health systems, as well as society more broadly. The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the importance of public health, the value of therapeutic medicine, and the power of vaccines. The pandemic has also made apparent stark inequities in access to testing, treatment, and vaccines. Click here to…
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Infographic Economic Value of Targeting Aging
For the full paper in Nature Aging, please click here.
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Working Life: Labour supply, ageing and longevity
The labour supply of older workers is set to be a key policy issue in the years ahead. An ageing society is leading to an increasing number of older people and longevity to longer lives and changes in the life course. Both forces are leading to increased labour market participation at older ages. As retirement…
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Nature Aging: The economic value of targeting aging
This paper ultimately does two things. Firstly, it places an economic value on the gains to various combinations of improving health, increasing life expectancy and delaying aging. Secondly, it tries to capture the dynamics of how the relationship between these gains will evolve in the future. Read the full paper in Nature Aging here.
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Nature Aging: Achieving a three-dimensional longevity dividend
There is a lot of focus on an ageing society as a result of falling birth rates and longer lives. But this demographic transition is increasingly becoming a longevity transition with the majority of life expectancy gains in high income countries now coming in later years. Past improvements in health and life expectancy have been…
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Project Syndicate Article: A Healthy Improvement on GDP
GDP is not always the best indicator of economic performance. Policymakers in search of an alternative should recognize the far-reaching power of healthy life expectancy as a measure not only of individual wellbeing, but of broader macroeconomic conditions as well. Dissatisfaction about GDP is growing. Many economists, policymakers, and other critics question the ability of this central…
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