Aging

Every person – in every country in the world – should have the opportunity to live a long and healthy life. Yet, the environments in which we live can favor health or be harmful to it. Environments are highly influential on our behavior and our exposure to health risks (for example, air pollution or violence), our access to services (for example, health and social care) and the opportunities that aging brings.

The number and proportion of people aged 60 years and older in the population is increasing. In 2019, the number of people aged 60 years and older was 1

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Commercial determinants of health

Overview

The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, the systems put in place to deal with illness, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. These forces and systems include economic policies and systems, development agendas, social norms, social policies and political systems. Social determinants of health matter because addressing them not only helps prevent illness, but also promotes healthy lives and societal equity.

Commercial determinants of health are a key social determinant, and refer to the conditions, actions and omissions by commercial

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Census Bureau releases healthy life expectancy at 60 infographic

A new America Counts Story from the US Census Bureau and funded in part by NIA, looks at healthy life expectancy at age 60 (HALE60) and how it varies by world region, country, income, and gender.Two older adults jogging on a path in a park.

Healthy life expectancy is the average number of years that a person can expect to live in “full health,” which takes into account years lived without injury and disease. The America Counts Story on HALE at Age 60 found that living longer and healthier is most dependent on the income level of the country in which a person lives and their gender.

Researchers found

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