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Healthy Life Expectancy

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Abstract

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 disability or healthy. They measure whether the increases in life expectancy experienced by the majority of countries worldwide are years of healthy life or are simply due to extending the lives of the frail. This chapter has four sections. The first section reviews the historical development of health expectancies and explains the different types of health expectancies. The second section explains the methods for calculating health expectancies with reference to available software. The third section focuses on the use of health expectancies in health and social policy, particularly in highlighting health inequalities. The fourth section provides a brief conclusion.

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Jagger, C., Robine, JM. (2011). Healthy Life Expectancy. In: Rogers, R., Crimmins, E. (eds) International Handbook of Adult Mortality. International Handbooks of Population, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9996-9_26

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