A Quantitative Method for Estimating the Human Development Stages Based on the Health State Function Theory and the Resulting Deterioration Process

Christos H. Skiadas and Charilaos Skiadas
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Christos H. Skiadas: ManLab, Technical University of Crete
Charilaos Skiadas: Hanover College, Department of Mathematics/Computer Science

Chapter Chapter 2 in Exploring the Health State of a Population by Dynamic Modeling Methods, 2018, pp 21-42 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Health State Function theory is applied to find a quantitative estimate of the Human Development Stages by defining and calculating the specific age groups and subgroups. Early and late adolescence stages, first, second and third stages of adult development are estimated along with the early, middle and old age groups and subgroups. We briefly present the first exit time theory used to find the health state function of a population and then we give the details of the new theoretical approach with the appropriate applications to support and validate the theoretical assumptions. Our approach is useful for people working in several scientific fields and especially in medicine, biology, anthropology, psychology, gerontology, probability and statistics. The results are connected with the speed and acceleration of the deterioration of the human organism during age as a consequence of the changes in the first, second and third differences of the Health State Function and of the Deterioration Function.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65142-2_2

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