Success has many fathers, failure remains an orphan

TY - JOUR

T1 - Success has many fathers, failure remains an orphan

AU - Bonneux, L.G.A.

N1 - Reporting year: 2011

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - Was the sharp upturn of life expectancy in the Netherlands partly due to increased health care funding for the elderly? I argue that there is nothing unusual to the increasing life expectancy since the beginning of the twenty-first century, and that there is no observable relationship with changed health care funding whatsoever. What was highly unusual was the rather dramatic lagging of Dutch life expectancy between 1980 and 2000. The reasons of this failure remain clouded in mystery.

AB - Was the sharp upturn of life expectancy in the Netherlands partly due to increased health care funding for the elderly? I argue that there is nothing unusual to the increasing life expectancy since the beginning of the twenty-first century, and that there is no observable relationship with changed health care funding whatsoever. What was highly unusual was the rather dramatic lagging of Dutch life expectancy between 1980 and 2000. The reasons of this failure remain clouded in mystery.

U2 - 10.1007/s10654-011-9640-z

DO - 10.1007/s10654-011-9640-z

M3 - Article

VL - 26

SP - 897

EP - 898

JO - European Journal of Epidemiology

JF - European Journal of Epidemiology

SN - 0393-2990

IS - 12

ER -