You are more likely to be free from chronic diseases such as diabetes, osteoarthritis, cholesterol and more serious pathologies for most of your life. These health concerns would tend to develop in the last years of his life, in accordance with the “compression of morbidity”. This good news is brought by specialists from the universities of Cambridge and Harvard requested by the American National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). These scientists have submitted a preliminary report based on the analysis of the Medicare study carried out among 10,000 Americans. The encouraging results therefore clearly indicate a longer lifespan in good health, and a shorter lifespan with disability.
People with serious illness can also expect to live longer, the document also believes.
It’s a safe bet that, if carried out in France, this report would give even more encouraging results. The way of life and the health of Europeans being much better than those of Americans. A recent WHO report indicated that French have gained five years of life expectancyin 30 years. At birth, French women can expect to live 63.6 years in good health, according to the European statistics office Eurostat. France is thus above the average of the 27 EU countries (62 years).
