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Amir Alexandre Banifatemi

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The impact of innovation and collaboration on life expectancy

According to some researchers, it seems that life expectancy is growing in developing countries and in regions with a fast pace and innovative environment.
While I am looking for statistics, studies to confirm this. The idea is that life expectancy can be a function of our social organizaiton

Topics: collaborative innovation life expectancy
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  • Mark Meijer 100+

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    Feb 16 2011: I'm quite convinced that state of mind (and peace of mind) is an important factor in life expectancy, in itself and also indirectly, in how it affects your other decisions that could impact health etc. No doubt social organization is a major component to this.

    But be careful of assumptions, such as "fast pace" ;)
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    John Mardlin 500+

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    Feb 15 2011: Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" starts with a very good story about a particular town in Pennsylvania, completed populate by Italian immigrants, who maintained many of their old world traditions. Though they had generally unhealthy eating and excercise habits, their rate of heart disease was much lower, and their life expectancy much higher. This was attributed to the strength of the social networks there, people were never alone, eating together was a daily occurence and visitations were frequent.

    In regard to your idea, do you think that our currently scattered lives can have the same social benefits from online collaboration?

    Or perhaps I'm way off topic, are you simply saying that the more collaborative a society, the more developed their medical system is likely to be for promoting long living?
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