How Long Will you Live?

by Dean P. Foster, Choong Tze Chua, and Lyle H. Ungar.

The web provides a wonderful way of presenting information about health habits. By allowing the you to enter health information, a calculation can be made to predict how long you will live.

We are working on developing such a life calculator. The predictions are based on data about Americans so the forecasts won't be as useful for people from different cultures.

The following will all make predictions as to how long you will live:

• Our own life calculator
• Our new version of the life calculator
• A new one with a very slick interface
• NW Mutual's The longevity game

Health information about other countries

• Center for International Health Information
• World Health Organization

Other health-related items

• Our own: Would you walk a mile to smoke one cigarette?
• The Australian government's pointers to health-related sites
• NIH's view on: Life Extension: Science or Science Fiction?
• National safety council's list of Accident rates (unintentional)
• American Council on Science and Health's Facts versus fears (inclualar, cranberries, etc)
• Some ways to keep mentally fit from the new scientist (local mirror)

Information about how we do our calculations

• How we do the calculations
  • Expository summary
  • Mathematical summary
  • Basic life table concepts
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• The data used in the calculations
  • numbers
• Other
  • general_calculations
  • Health habits are equated to exercise
  • References