Extending Health Expectancy

Health expectancy indicators.

An outline is presented of progress in the development of health expectancy indicators, which are growing in importance as a means of assessing the health status of populations and determining public health priorities.

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...

International efforts to measure health expectancy.

A new health expectancy classification system

In such an analysis we would not only determine for each age the probability of survival, but also the subsidiary probabilities of those surviving on the basis of their functional effectiveness. This would range from individuals who are completely dependent on others, even for carrying on their daily living activities, to those fully equipped to carry on with no apparent handicaps all the funct...

Disability-free life expectancy by health region.

OBJECTIVES This article presents a profile of variations in disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) by health region. DATA SOURCES Mortality data for 1995 through 1997 are from the Canadian Vital Statistics Database. Estimates of disability (major activity limitations) and sociodemographic characteristics are based on data from the 1996 Census. Supplementary information was provided by the Dem...