Healthy life expectancy (HLE) is a comprehensive indicator, which derives its change from changes in both mortality and health status [19]. It could thus reflect the health trends of advanced schistosomiasis patients and provide the implication for medical interventions in improving patients’ quality...
Life style and health status of the aged in a rural area: Part 2. Actual status by family type Problems in life styles and health status according to family type and the presence or lack of a spouse among the aged in a rural area were investigated. T... H Ohara,S Horikawa,A Hisashi...
Life expectancy estimates for youth with HIV in the US are needed in the current HIV care and treatment context to guide health policies and resource allocation. Objective To compare life expectancy between 18-year-old youth with perinatally acquired HIV (PHIV), youth with nonperinatally acquired...
This study estimated total life expectancy (TLE) and active life expectancy (ALE) for respondents by their baseline marital status using a large longitudinal sample of the U.S. community-dwelling elderly population. Methods Data were from the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey Cohort 15 (2012 baseline...
Location and Life Expectancy A person’s environment can have a significant impact on their overall health, with social factors like income, education, employment and community violence tied to life expectancy. Among counties in the U.S., average life expectancy can vary by decades, with sizable...
The main outcome measures in this study include life expectancy estimated from mortality and HEs based on five health conditions including activity of daily living, instrumental activity of daily living, cognitive status, self-rated health, and chronic conditions. Results. Net of the controls, ...
Life expectancy at birth is considered the best mortality-based summary indicator of the health status of the population and is useful for measuring long-term health changes. The objective of this article was to present the concept of the bottom-up policy risk assessment approach, developed to id...
life expectancy”. Self-rated health is based on subjective health status, therefore, due to cultural differences, identical questions may not mean the same to people in different countries. Disability-free life expectancy is one of the most widely accepted measure of health expectancy5; it has ...
Some studies15, 16 have estimated health expectancy based on cross-sectional methods, that is, prevalence-based life tables of health status, also known as Sullivan’s Method.23 The advantage of using longitudinal methods, such as multistate life tables (MSLT), in estimating health expectancy is...
摘要: Conclusions: Educational level and life expectancy are clearly related. The social gradient in terms of health expectancy is even greater than that in terms of life expectancy.关键词: Life expectancy Health expectancy Social inequality Education ...