| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 428 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jean-Marie Robine, Carol Jagger, Colin D. Mathers, Eileen M. Crimmins, Richard M. Suzman and Yves Peron -- The Main Trends in the Evolution of the Population's Health Status -- Increase in Life Expectancy and Concentration of Ages at Death / France mesle and Jacques Vallin -- Compression of Morbidity / Wilma J. Nusselder -- Patterns of Disability Change Associated with the Epidemiologic Transition / George C. Myers, Vicki L. Lamb, and Emily M. Agree -- Trends in Health Expectancies / Jean-Marie Robine, Isabelle Romieu and Jean-Pierre Michel -- The Relevance of Health Expectancies -- Social Inequalities in Health Expectancy / Eileen M. Crimmins and Emmanuelle Cambois -- Sub-national Variations in Health Expectancy / Andrew Bebbington and Madhavi Bajekal -- Cause-deleted Health Expectancies / Colin D. Mathers -- Mental Health Expectancy / Karen Ritchie and Catherine Polge -- Measurement, Collection and Calculation Problems -- Data Collection Methods and Comparability Issues / Victoria Buratta and Viviana Egidi -- Disability Measurement / Dorly J.H. Deeg, Lois M. Verbrugge and Carol Jagger -- The Evolution of Demographic Methods to Calculate Health Expectancies / Sarah B. Laditka and Mark D. Hayward -- Health-adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) / Jean-Marie Berthelot -- Disability-adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and Disability-adjusted Life Expectancy (DALE) / Jan J. Barendregt -- Classification and Harmonisation / Hendriek Boshuizen and Rom J.M. Perenboom -- Health Expectancies in the Different Regions of the World -- Health Expectancy in Asian Countries / Yasuhiko Saito, Xiaochun Qiao and Sutthichai Jitapunkul -- Ageing and Health Expectancies in Urban Latin America / Roberto Ham-Chande -- Global Patterns of Health Expectancy in the Year 2000 / Colin D. Mathers, Christopher J.L. Murray, Alan D. Lopez, Joshua A. Salomon and Ritu Sadana -- Health Expectancies in European Countries / Rom J.M. Perenboom, Herman Van Oyen and Margareta Mutafova -- Health Expectancy Research in North American Countries / Vicki L. Lamb -- Health Expectancy in Australia and New Zealand / Peter Davis, Colin D. Mathers and Patrick Graham |
| Summary |
As an indicator of population health, health expectancy allows us to address the important question of whether or not we are exchanging longer life for poorer health - extending the quantity of life at the expense of quality. This book explains how to define and measure health and morbidity and how to combine these measurements with mortality to produce comparable health expectancies in order to address this key question |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Health Status Indicators.
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Global Health.
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Life Expectancy.
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Socioeconomic Factors.
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Health expectancy.
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Health status indicators.
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World health.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Robine, Jean-Marie.
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| ISBN |
0470857870 (electronic bk.) |
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0470858885 |
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9780470857878 (electronic bk.) |
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9780470858882 |
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