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Health Estimates for Some Countries of the Rapid Developing World

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This is a twofold paper, firstly aiming to apply a method for the calculation of healthy life expectancy to the well-known BRIICS countries. This method is based on the μ x distribution of a full life table. However, for many countries of the world such data is virtually absent or problematic, and in reality, only available in the form of an abridged life table. Thus, a method for expanding these life tables into full ones was presented. This method is used by the MORTPAK software of the United Nations. It was found that the use of this application was quite problematic for our purposes. On the other hand, the μ x based approach seems to be very efficient in calculating the temporal trends and levels of healthy life expectancy, given that the quality of data is good.

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  1. Department of History and Ethnology, Laboratory of P. Anthropology, Democritus University of Thrace, P. Tsaldari 1, Komotini, 69100, Greece

    Konstantinos N. Zafeiris

  2. ManLab, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Crete, Greece

    Christos H. Skiadas

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Zafeiris, K.N., Skiadas, C.H. (2018). Health Estimates for Some Countries of the Rapid Developing World. In: Skiadas, C., Skiadas, C. (eds) Demography and Health Issues. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, vol 46. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76002-5_24

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