Evidencing the gap between health expectancy and life expectancy for ethnic groups in Scotland.

Inequalities in healthy life expectancy between ethnic groups in England and Wales in 2001

OBJECTIVES We aim to develop robust estimates of disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) and healthy life expectancy (HLE) for ethnic groups in England and Wales in 2001 and to examine observed variations across ethnic groups. DESIGN DFLE and HLE by age and gender for five-year age groups were computed for 16 ethnic groups by combining the 2001 Census data on ethnicity, self-reported limiting ...

Health-adjusted life expectancy.

In 1991, the National Task Force on Health Information recommended that in order to assess the health of Canadians, the health information system should include an aggregate index of population health. This article presents such an index--Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE)--as one possibility in a range of indicators. In contrast to conventional life expectancy, which considers all years as...

Life expectancy of different ethnic groups using death records linked to population census data for 4.62 million people in Scotland

BACKGROUND Few countries record the data needed to estimate life expectancy by ethnic group. Such information is helpful in assessing the extent of health inequality. METHOD Life tables were created using 3 years of deaths (May 2001-April 2004) linked to Scottish 2001 Census data for 4.62 million individuals with self-reported ethnicity. We created 8 ethnic groups based on the census definiti...

The Comparison of General Health and Life Expectancy between Students with Favorable and Unfavorable Socioeconomic Status

Introduction: The present study aims to compare general health and life expectancy between students with favorable and unfavorable socioeconomic status. Methods: The statistical population in this study consists of all the students of Lamerd city in the second semester of the academic year of 2013-2014. The sample of this study consists of 200 male and fe...

Methods for life expectancy and healthy life expectancy uncertainty analysis