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Incidence-based Estimates of Healthy Life Expectancy for the United Kingdom: Coherence between Transition Probabilities and Aggregate Life Tables [PDF]
arXiv, 2006 Will the United Kingdom's ageing population be fit and independent, or suffer from greater chronic ill health? Healthy life expectancy is commonly used to assess this: it is an estimate of how many years are lived in good health over the lifespan. This paper examines a means of generating estimates of healthy and unhealthy life expectancy consistent ...
Ehsan Khoman, Martin Weale
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Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of patients with advanced schistosomiasis in Hunan Province, China [PDF]
Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2023 Abstract Background Few studies have investigated the change in life expectancy (LE) and the healthy lifespan among patients with advanced schistosomiasis. This study was to evaluate the LE and healthy life expectancy (HLE) for patients and assess the mechanism responsible for the LE inequality.
Honglin Jiang +14 more
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Healthy Life Expectancy at Birth in the Italian Regions [PDF]
, 2022 Istat-BES calculates the value of life expectancy in good health. Healthy life expectancy at birth "expresses the average number of years that a child born in a given calendar year can expect to live in good health, using the prevalence of individuals who respond positively (" well " or "very well") to the question about perceived health".
Angelo Leogrande
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Trends in healthy life expectancy in the age of austerity [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2022 BackgroundWorrying changes in life expectancy trends have been observed recently in the UK, largely attributed to austerity policies introduced over the last decade. To incorporate changes to quality, rather than just length of, life, our aim was to describe trends in healthy life expectancy (HLE) for the relevant period.MethodsIn the absence of ...
David Walsh +2 more
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Longitudinal analysis of the determinants of life expectancy and healthy life expectancy: A causal approach [PDF]
Healthcare Analytics, 2021 AbstractUnderstanding the determinants of health is essential to designing effective strategies to advance economic growth, reduce disease and disability, and enhance quality of life. We undertake a comprehensive outlook on public health by incorporating three metrics - life expectancy (LE), healthy life expectancy (HLE), and the discrepancy between ...
Rohan Aanegola +2 more
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The socioeconomic distribution of life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in Chile
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023 Abstract Background Life expectancy (LE) has usually been used as a metric to monitor population health. In the last few years, metrics such as Quality-Adjusted-Life-Expectancy (QALE) and Health-Adjusted-Life- Expectancy (HALE) have gained popularity in health research, given their capacity to capture health related ...
Espinoza, Manuel A. +4 more
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Impact of Musculoskeletal Disorders on Healthy Life Expectancy in Japan [PDF]
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2021 Abstract Background: Musculoskeletal disorders are the key cause of morbidity in elderly people. However, the exact clinical reasons for musculoskeletal disorders related to healthy life expectancy remain elusive. Hence, we aimed to estimate gains in healthy life expectancy from the elimination of musculoskeletal diseases and injuries by using ...
Arihiko Kanaji +9 more
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Global Trends in Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy
, 2023 In the known history of humanity, life expectancy scarcely exceeded 30 years, with half of newborns dying before age five, up to the 18th century. However, from the 18th century onward, major epidemics were combatted more efficiently, famines became less frequent, and life expectancy thus began to increase, first in Northwest Europe, then spreading to ...
Cambois, Emmanuelle +2 more
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Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of Japan: the fastest graying society in the world [PDF]
BMC Research Notes, 2016 We appraised time trends of Japanese life expectancy (LE) and healthy life expectancy (HALE) by gender, LE-HALE and (LE-HALE)/LE figures, along with the women-men's differences.Using the Japanese LE and HALE values from 1990 through 2013 by gender in the article by the GBD 2013 DALYs and HALE Collaborators, we examined trends of LE and HALE, and their ...
Akihiro Igata +2 more
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Regional differences in healthy life expectancy in the Netherlands [PDF]
Public Health, 2003 Healthy life expectancy has mainly been studied at the level of healthcare systems rather than at regional level within healthcare systems. In this article, healthy life expectancy at birth and at 65 years of age for men and women in the Netherlands has been described, and factors related to these regional variations have been explored.Ecological study
Hendriek C Boshuizen +2 more
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