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| Health expectancies and current research | | Author(s) | Jean-Marie Robine, Isabelle Romieu, Emmanuelle Cambois |
| Journal title | Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, vol 7, no 1, February 1997 |
| Pages | pp 73-81 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Physical disabilities ; Mobility ; Quality of life ; Life expectancy tables ; Measurement ; International. |
| Annotation | Health expectancy is used as a generic term for all the indicators that express a defined state of health in terms of life expectancy. These indicators apply equally to `positive' and `negative' states of health. An international research network, REVES (Réseau Espérance de Vie en Santé/Network on Health Expectancy and the Disability Process) has set up a classification system to facilitate international comparisons by examining requirements for harmonisation of health expectancies. Literature on methods of measuring and calculating health expectancy is summarised. Theoretical survival curves indicate impairment-free, disability-free, handicap-free and total survival rates; and graphs indicate differences between life expectancy and handicap-free or disability-free life expectancy. The utility of health expectancies for those responsible for health policy is illustrated for: appreciating quality of years lived; surveying inequalities in health; and allocating resources between different programmes; and evaluating health policies. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980702007 A |
| Classmark | CC: BN: C4: F:59: S7: 3R: 72 |
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