Definition Any of a number of summary measures which use explicit weights to combine health expectancies for a set of discrete health states into a single indicator estimating the expectation of equivalent years of good health. Also referred to as "healthy life expectancy."DefinitionAny of a ...
Likewise, national-level studies affirm the findings; for example, a study conducted in the United Kingdom found that an increase in household income of £1,000 is associated with an eight-month increase in female healthy life expectancy.2 However, on average, respondents living in countries ...
and their life expectancy is 1.5 years higher than that of employees (Table6). Moreover, the life expectancy of former employees with a medium level of ability to make ends meet, i.e., the “Medium Employee,” barely reaches the life expectancy of the “Low Self-Employed” (Table6). A...
Tracing the WBG’s influential health policy knowledge is particularly complex as it is often produced in partnership with other global health institutions [23], like in the case of the introduction of the disability adjusted life year (DALY) and the healthy life expectancy (HALE) metrics, which...
white. Across the United States, life expectancy differs not only by race, but also by geographic location, with US inner city African American males having the lowest life expectancy, which is 14 to 20 years less than males from white communities.10Black males in central Harlem have a life...
In this article the authors survey the evidence for the role of gender in health status analyze responses to gender by key global health actors and propose strategies for mainstreaming gender-related evidence into policies and programs. Using the WHO definition of gender the article attempts to dise...
First, the education gradient is larger for men than for women in life expectancy [16] as well as in HEX [17]. Second, in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, highly educated individuals are much healthier than low-educated individuals; whereas the difference is small in, for ...
What Is a Substandard Health Annuity? A substandard health annuity is an insurance product that can be purchased by a person with a serious health problem which will likely shorten the person's life expectancy. This annuity is a type ofstraight life annuity, also known as an enhanced or rated...
The preferred measure of health benefits, i.e., the health outcomes themselves, should not be limited to mortality or life expectancy. Instead, we should also consider whether raising the expenditure allocated to preventive healthcare will effectively lead to the attainment of better economic ...
Canada has good health indicators such as life expectancy, improved disease-specific causes of mortality and other biomarker of health improvement, but more can be achieved. Despite Canada's success in principle and largely in practice of universal access health care coverage, many groups in the ...