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Applying an Ethical Lens to the Treatment of People With Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The practice of neurology requires an understanding of clinical ethics for decision‐making. In multiple sclerosis (MS) care, there are a wide range of ethical considerations that may arise. These involve shared decision‐making around selection of a disease‐modifying therapy (DMT), risks and benefits of well‐studied medications in comparison to
Methma Udawatta, Farrah J. Mateen
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[Healthy life expectancy: a critical look at the benefits and potential of the demographic health indicator]. [PDF]

Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz
Luy M.
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Healthy Life Expectancy Measurement in Scotland

British Actuarial Journal, 2006
ABSTRACTHealth expectancy (HE) was only recently estimated for the Scottish population (Clark et al., 2004). The estimates were based on Sullivan's method, applying the morbidity prevalence in each age group to the expected number of years lived, to obtain the expected number of years lived in good health.
Macdonald, AS, Straughn, J, Sutton, M
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Healthy Life Expectancy

2011
Since the development of health expectancy measures in the late 1960s, the use of these indicators to monitor population health and to identify health inequalities has burgeoned. Health expectancies add a quality dimension to the quantity of life by partitioning life expectancy into years lived with disability or ill-health and years lived free of ...
Jagger, C, Robine, Jean-Marie
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Healthy life expectancy in 191 countries, 1999

The Lancet, 2001
We describe here the methods used to produce the first estimates of healthy life expectancy (DALE) for 191 countries in 1999. These were based on estimates of the incidence, prevalence, and disability distributions for 109 disease and injury causes by age group, sex, and region of the world, and an analysis of 60 representative health surveys across ...
Mathers, Colin D., Sadana, Ritu, Salomon, Joshua A., Murray, Christopher J. L., Lopez, Alan D.   +4 more
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Decomposing Gaps in Healthy Life Expectancy

2020
Decomposition is a widely used tool to explain a change or difference in an aggregate index by the underlying changes or differences in its parameters. In this chapter we first describe the main developments in the general field of decomposition analysis.
van Raalte, Alyson A., Nepomuceno, Marília R.   +1 more
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Healthy life expectancy in Thailand, 2009

The Lancet, 2013
Abstract Background It is essential for policy makers in the context of mortality decline to assess how long people can expect to live in full health. Healthy life expectancy (HALE) extends measures of life expectancy by incorporating levels of health conditions.
Kanitta Bundhamcharoen, Suchunya Aungkulanon, Nuttapat Makka, Kanjanawadee Prasittisa, Viroj Tangcharoensathien   +4 more
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Healthy life expectancy changes in Thailand, 2002–2007

Health & Place, 2013
We investigate links between increasing longevity and health status in Thailand. Using data from 2002 and 2007 national surveys of the elderly, healthy life expectancies at older ages were estimated. Change depended on health indicator, gender and age. Self-reported health and self-care disability showed expansion of morbidity.
Rukchanok, Karcharnubarn, Philip, Rees, Myles, Gould   +2 more
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Healthy life expectancy of colorectal cancer survivors.

Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2010
e14007 Background: Life expectancy after colorectal cancer has been increasing. However, the proportion of life that survivors spend in good health has never been assessed.
I. Soerjomataram, M. Thong, L. V. Poll, M. Ezzati, W. Nusselder   +4 more
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