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Age-standardized mortality, disability-adjusted life-years and healthy life expectancy in different cultural regions of Guangdong, China: a population-based study of 2005–2015 [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Guangdong province is dominated by three cultural regions: Canton, Hakka and Hoklo. However, little is known about the disease burden within these regions, particularly because different population,environmental and socioeconomic risk factors ...
Xueyan Zheng +8 more
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Multi-country clustering-based forecasting of healthy life expectancy
Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2023 Healthy life expectancy (HLE) is an indicator that measures the number of years individuals at a given age are expected to live free of disease or disability.
Susanna Levantesi +3 more
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Geriatric symptoms associated with healthy life expectancy in older people in Japan
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2023 Background We investigated the relationship between characteristic geriatric symptoms and healthy life expectancy in older adults in Japan. Additionally, we determined relationship predictors that would help formulate effective approaches toward ...
Rikuya Hosokawa +4 more
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Inequality of healthy life expectancy for the Chinese elderly and its trend [PDF]
, 2019 In this study, we use long-term follow-up survey data to explore the inequality of the healthy life expectancy among the elderly and the trends of such expectancy among different birth cohorts and at different ages.
Kaishan Jiao
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A Review of the Types and Characteristics of Healthy Life Expectancy and Methodological Issues
Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi, 2022 An index that evaluates the health level of a population group considering both death and loss of function due to disease is called a summary measure of population health (SMPH).
Young-Eun Kim +3 more
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Healthy Life Expectancy in the Context of the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing
Analysis and Forecasting. IMEMO Journal, 2022 The article examines the dynamics of the healthy life expectancy (HALE) in the world, in the WHO European Region and in Russia. It provides cross-country comparisons, revealing the main trends in the dynamics of healthy life expectancy at birth and at ...
E. Syndyashkina
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Research on healthy life expectancy (HLE) in China has been fueled by a spate of new data sources and studies, yet no consensus is reached on the pattern of HLE changes and the underlying mechanism.
Zhen Zhang +3 more
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 Background Sarcopenia is an important risk factor for disability and dependency at old age. The prevalence of sarcopenia among the Chilean older population is high.
Ximena Moreno +3 more
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Socio-spatial inequalities in healthy life expectancy in the elderly, Brazil, 2013 and 2019.
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2022 The growth in longevity in Brazil has drawn attention to more useful population health measures to complement mortality. In this paper, we investigate socio-spatial differences in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy based on information from the ...
C. Szwarcwald +4 more
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Revista Panamericana De Salud Publica-pan American Journal of Public Health, 2021 Objective. To describe the life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, disease burden, and leading causes of mortality and disability in adults aged 65 years and older in the Region of the Americas from 1990 to 2019. Methods.
Ramón Martínez +5 more
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