Determining Health Expectancies (eBook)
432 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-0-470-85787-8 (ISBN)
Health expectancies extend the concept of life expectancy to morbidity and disability by providing a means of dividing life expectancy into life spent in various states of good and bad health. Being independent of the size of populations and of their age structure, health expectancies thus allow direct comparison of the different groups that constitute populations: sexes, socio-professional categories, regions.
This book brings together for the first time, the major works of REVES* over the past ten years. As well as providing comparisons of the health of many of the world's countries, the book includes sections on the concepts behind health expectancies and the demographic transition, the relevance of health expectancies to health policy and the different methods of calculating health expectancies.
*REVES is an international organisation of researchers, clinicians and health planners addressing these issues as well as developing and recommending methods of calculation and furthering the use of health expectancy as a tool for health planning.
* State-of-the-art coverage of this important health indicator
* Heavily cross referenced to give the book structure and coherence
* Editors are pioneers in the field of health expectancy
Jean-Marie Robine is a French demographer, gerontologist, author and journalist, who is best known as being the co-validator of the longevity of Jeanne Calment, the oldest verified supercentenarian of all time, with whom he collaborated. Carol Jagger is the editor of Determining Health Expectancies, published by Wiley.
Health expectancies were developed to address the important question of whether or not we are exchanging longer life for poorer health - replacing quality by quantity. Health expectancies extend the concept of life expectancy to morbidity and disability by providing a means of dividing life expectancy into life spent in various states of good and bad health. Being independent of the size of populations and of their age structure, health expectancies thus allow direct comparison of the different groups that constitute populations: sexes, socio-professional categories, regions. This book brings together for the first time, the major works of REVES* over the past ten years. As well as providing comparisons of the health of many of the world's countries, the book includes sections on the concepts behind health expectancies and the demographic transition, the relevance of health expectancies to health policy and the different methods of calculating health expectancies. *REVES is an international organisation of researchers, clinicians and health planners addressing these issues as well as developing and recommending methods of calculation and furthering the use of health expectancy as a tool for health planning. * State-of-the-art coverage of this important health indicator * Heavily cross referenced to give the book structure and coherence * Editors are pioneers in the field of health expectancy
Jean-Marie Robine is a French demographer, gerontologist, author and journalist, who is best known as being the co-validator of the longevity of Jeanne Calment, the oldest verified supercentenarian of all time, with whom he collaborated. Carol Jagger is the editor of Determining Health Expectancies, published by Wiley.
Determining Health Expectancies 3
Contents 7
List of Contributors 11
List of Abbreviations 17
Introduction 19
PART I THE MAIN TRENDS IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE POPULATION’S HEALTH STATUS 25
Introduction 27
1 Increase in Life Expectancy and Concentration of Ages at Death 31
2 Compression of Morbidity 53
3 Patterns of Disability Change Associated with the Epidemiologic Transition 77
4 Trends in Health Expectancies 93
PART II THE RELEVANCE OF HEALTH EXPECTANCIES 121
Introduction 123
5 Social Inequalities in Health Expectancy 129
6 Sub-national Variations in Health Expectancy 145
7 Cause-deleted Health Expectancies 167
8 Mental Health Expectancy 193
PART III MEASUREMENT, COLLECTION AND CALCULATION PROBLEMS 201
Introduction 203
9 Data Collection Methods and Comparability Issues 205
10 Disability Measurement 221
11 The Evolution of Demographic Methods to Calculate Health Expectancies 239
12 Health-adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) 253
13 Disability-adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and Disability-adjusted Life Expectancy (DALE) 265
14 Classification and Harmonisation 281
PART IV HEALTH EXPECTANCIES IN THE DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE WORLD 301
Introduction 303
15 Health Expectancy in Asian Countries 307
16 Ageing and Health Expectancies in Urban Latin America 337
17 Global Patterns of Health Expectancy in the Year 2000 353
18 Health Expectancies in European Countries 377
19 Health Expectancy Research in North American Countries 395
20 Health Expectancy in Australia and New Zealand 409
Index 427
"...a truly international endeavour..." (Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, March 2003)
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.7.2003 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie | |
Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
Schlagworte | Medical Science • Medical Sciences Special Topics • Medizin • Spezialthemen Medizin |
ISBN-10 | 0-470-85787-0 / 0470857870 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-470-85787-8 / 9780470857878 |
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