Thursday, September 1 / 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM   •   Room P 5

Session 15:
Longevity advances and their determinants

Chair: Jacques Vallin, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

  1. Minimum death rates and maximum life expectancy: relations and forecastVladimir Canudas-Romo, Max-Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging

  2. Of leaders and losers - old age mortality paradoxesKarin Modig, Karolinska Institutet ; Sven Drefahl, Stockholm University ; Anders Ahlbom, Karolinska Institutet

  3. Lifestyle or healthcare? Explaining the lack of progress in life expectancyFrederik Peters, Universität Rostock ; Marcus Ebeling, Universität Rostock ; Roland Rau, Universität Rostock ; Christina Bohk-Ewald, Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research

  4. The gestational age pattern of human mortalityJonas Schöley, Max-Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging and University of Southern Denmark ; James W. Vaupel, Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research and Max-Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging ; Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen, Max-Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging ; James E. Oeppen, Max-Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging

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