Introduction: Smoking prevalence has been declining in men all over Europe, while the trend varies in European regions among women. To study the impact of past smoking prevalence, we present a comprehensive overview of the most recent trends in incidence, during 1988-2010, in 26 countries, of four of the major cancers in the respiratory and upper gastro-intestinal tract associated with tobacco smoking. Methods: Data from 47 population-based cancer registries for lung, laryngeal, oral cavity and pharyngeal, and oesophageal cancer cases were obtained from the newly developed data repository within the European Cancer Observatory (http://eco.iarc.fr/). Truncated agestandardised incidence rates (35-74 years) by calendar year, average annual percentage change in incidence over 1998-2007 were calculated. Smoking prevalence in selected countries was extracted from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the World Health Organization databases. Results: There remained great but changing variation in the incidence rates of tobacco-related cancers by European region. Generally, the high rates among men have been declining, while the lower rates among women are increasing, resulting in convergence of the rates. ScienceDirectj o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : ww w . e j c a n c e r . c o m cancer rates were above male rates in Denmark,

Longer lives and fertility far below the replacement level of 2.1 births per woman are leading to rapid population aging in many countries. Many observers are concerned that aging will adversely affect public finances and standards of living. Analysis of newly available National Transfer Accounts data for 40 countries shows that fertility well above replacement would typically be most beneficial for government budgets. However, fertility near replacement would be most beneficial for standards of living when the analysis includes the effects of age structure on families as well as governments. And fertility below replacement would maximize per capita consumption when the cost of providing capital for a growing labor force is taken into account. While low fertility will indeed challenge government programs and very low fertility undermines living standards, we find that moderately low fertility and population decline favor the broader material standard of living

For a long time, studies of socioeconomic gradients in health have limited their attention to between-group comparisons. Yet, ignoring the differences that might exist within groups and focusing on group-specific life expectancy levels and trends alone, one might arrive at overly simplistic conclusions. Using data from the Spanish Encuesta Sociodemográfica and recently released mortality files by the Spanish Statistical Office (INE), this is the first study to simultaneously document (1) the gradient in life expectancy by educational attainment groups and (2) the inequality in ageat-death distributions within and across those groups for the period between 1960 and 2015 in Spain. Our findings suggest that life expectancy has been increasing for all education groups but particularly among the highly educated. We observe diverging trends in life expectancy, with the differences between the low-and highly educated becoming increasingly large, particularly among men. Concomitantly with increasing disparities across groups, length-oflife inequality has decreased for the population as a whole and for most education groups, and the contribution of the between-group component of inequality to overall inequality has been extremely small. Even if between-group inequality has increased over time, its contribution has been too small to have sizable effects on overall inequality. In addition, our results suggest that education expansion and declining within-group variability might have been the Post-print. Demography (First online 15 Oct. 2018) 2 main drivers of overall lifespan inequality reductions. Nevertheless, the diverging trends in longevity and lifespan inequality across education groups is an important phenomenon whose underlying causes and potential implications should be investigated in detail.

Recent trends indicate a substantial rise in the population-level impact of tobacco smoking on life expectancy in women and in middle-income countries. High-quality local data are needed in most low-income countries.

O objetivo do trabalho é analisar os determinantes da condição de atividade e das horas trabalhadas dos indivíduos de 60 anos e mais que moravam em São IntroduçãoO envelhecimento populacional no Brasil eleva a proporção de pessoas de 60 anos e mais, que de 8%, em 1996, atingirá os 15% em 2020. Tal perspectiva significa a duplicação da proporção de idosos, em menos de 35 anos (CAMARANO, 2002). Este envelhecimento repercutirá na força de trabalho, aumentando, também, a proporção de trabalhadores idosos, já que no Brasil, como em outros países em desenvolvimento, a idade de saída da força de trabalho ainda é elevada. A taxa de atividade entre as pessoas de mais de 60 anos, em 1997, correspondia a 41%, para os homens, e a 13%, para as mulheres (25% para o total da população idosa). A tendência destas taxas está em lento declínio, mas sua participação no total da população ativa é compensada pelo aumento relativo do segmento de idosos