Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy: Concepts and Estimates
This paper review the concepts and results of Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy . Health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) is a comprehensive indicator because it introduces the concept of quality of life. It is interpreted as the number of years in full he
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Disease Burdens and Economic Impacts 2.1 General Aspects, Geographical Aspects, Pathologies and Metabolic Disorders
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
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Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 Health Expectancies (HE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419 Calculating Hale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
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Hale Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
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Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 Summary Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
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Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy: Concepts and Estimates
Abstract: This paper review the concepts and results of > Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy. Health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) is a comprehensive indicator because it introduces the concept of quality of life. It is interpreted as the number of years in > full health that an individual can expect to live given the current morbidity and mortality conditions. The Sullivan’s method has been widely used to estimate the measure the simplicity of its inputs. The most comprehensive estimates correspond to WHO and several studies have been published since. Results show differences in healthy life expectancy by sex and country level of development. List of Abbreviations: ADL, activities of daily living; DALE, disability-adjusted life expectancy Synonym for HALE (q.v.) or healthy life expectancy; DALY, disability-adjusted life year; DFLE, > disability-free life expectancy; GBD, > global burden of disease project; HALE, health-adjusted life expectancy; HE, > health expectancy; WHO, World Health Organization
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Introduction
Several summary measures are used to describe the population health but only few capture the disability caused by diseases. The indicator Healthy Life Expectancy (HALE) combine both fatal an non-fatal outcomes in a summary measure that represents the average level of the population health (Mathers et al., 2001, 2006). The characteristics, methodology and current results of the measure are presented in the following pages.
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Background
Health is a ‘‘state
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