Determining health expectancies / edited by Jean-Marie Robine ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robine, Jean-Marie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health expectancy.

Health status indicators.

World health.

Physical Description:

xiii, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester ; Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley, [2003]

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.

Contents:

Part I The Main Trends in the Evolution of the Population's Health Status

1 Increase in Life Expectancy and Concentration of Ages at Death / France Mesle, Jacques Vallin 13

2 Compression of Morbidity / Wilma J. Nusselder 35

3 Patterns of Disability Change Associated with the Epidemiologic Transition / George C. Myers, Vicki L. Lamb, Emily M. Agree 59

4 Trends in Health Expectancies / Jean-Marie Robine, Isabelle Romieu, Jean-Pierre Michel 75

Part II The Relevance of Health Expectancies

5 Social Inequalities in Health Expectancy / Eileen M. Crimmins, Emmanuelle Cambois 111

6 Sub-national Variations in Health Expectancy / Andrew Bebbington, Madhavi Bajekal 127

7 Cause-deleted Health Expectancies / Colin D. Mathers 149

8 Mental Health Expectancy / Karen Ritchie, Catherine Polge 175

Part III Measurement, Collection and Calculation Problems

9 Data Collection Methods and Comparability Issues / Victoria Buratta, Viviana Egidi 187

10 Disability Measurement / Dorly J.H. Deeg, Lois M. Verbrugge, Carol Jagger 203

11 The Evolution of Demographic Methods to Calculate Health Expectancies / Sarah B. Laditka, Mark D. Hayward 221

12 Health-adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) / Jean-Marie Berthelot 235

13 Disability-adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and Disability-adjusted Life Expectancy (DALE) / Jan J. Barendregt 247

14 Classification and Harmonisation / Hendriek Boshuizen, Rom J.M. Perenboom 263

Part IV Health Expectancies in the Different Regions of the World

15 Health Expectancy in Asian Countries / Yasuhiko Saito, Xiaochun Qiao, Sutthichai Jitapunkul 289

16 Ageing and Health Expectancies in Urban Latin America / Roberto Ham-Chande 319

17 Global Patterns of Health Expectancy in the Year 2000 / Colin D. Mathers, Christopher J.L. Murray, Alan D. Lopez, Joshua A. Salomon, Ritu Sadana 335

18 Health Expectancies in European Countries / Rom J.M. Perenboom, Herman Van Oyen, Margareta Mutafova 359

19 Health Expectancy Research in North American Countries / Vicki L. Lamb 377

20 Health Expectancy in Australia and New Zealand / Peter Davis, Colin D. Mathers, Patrick Graham 391.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0470843977

OCLC:

50403871