Robine / Jagger / Mathers Determining Health Expectancies

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-470-85787-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 444 Seiten, E-Book

Health expectancies were developed to address the importantquestion of whether or not we are exchanging longer life for poorerhealth - replacing quality by quantity.
Health expectancies extend the concept of life expectancy tomorbidity and disability by providing a means of dividing lifeexpectancy into life spent in various states of good and badhealth. Being independent of the size of populations and of theirage structure, health expectancies thus allow direct comparison ofthe different groups that constitute populations: sexes,socio-professional categories, regions.
This book brings together for the first time, the major works ofREVES* over the past ten years. As well as providing comparisons ofthe health of many of the world's countries, the book includessections on the concepts behind health expectancies and thedemographic transition, the relevance of health expectancies tohealth policy and the different methods of calculating healthexpectancies.
*REVES is an international organisation of researchers, cliniciansand health planners addressing these issues as well as developingand recommending methods of calculation and furthering the use ofhealth expectancy as a tool for health planning.
* State-of-the-art coverage of this important health indicator
* Heavily cross referenced to give the book structure and coherence
* Editors are pioneers in the field of health expectancy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robine, Jean-Marie

Jagger, Carol

Mathers, Colin D.

Crimmins, Eileen M.

Suzman, Richard M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors.
List of Abbreviations.
Introduction (J. Robine, et al.).
PART I: THE MAIN TRENDS IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE POPULATION'SHEALTH STATUS.
Introduction (J. Robine).
Increase in Life Expectancy and Concentration of Ages at Death(F. Meslé and J. Vallin).
Compression of Morbidity (W. Nusselder).
Patterns of Disability Change Associated with the EpidemiologicTransition (G. Myers, et al.).
Trends in Health Expectancies (J. Robine, et al.).
PART II: THE RELEVANCE OF HEALTH EXPECTANCIES.
Introduction (E. Crimmins).
Social Inequalities in Health Expectancy (E. Crimmins and E.Cabois).
Sub-national Variations in Health Expectancy (A. Bebbington andM. Bajekal).
Cause-deleted Health Expectancies (C. Mathers).
Mental Health Expectancy (K. Ritchie and C. Polge).
PART III: MEASUREMENT, COLLECTION AND CALCULATION PROBLEMS.
Introduction (C. Jagger).
Data Collection Methods and Comparability Issues (V. Buratta andV. Egidi).
Disability Measurement (D. Deeg, et al.).
The Evolution of Demographic Methods to Calculate HealthExpectancies (S. Laditka and M. Hayward).
Health-adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) (J. Berthelot).
Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and Disability-adjustedLife Expectancy (DALE) (J. Barendregt).
Classification and Harmonisation (H. Boshuizen and R.Perenboom).
PART IV: HEALTH EXPECTANCIES IN THE DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THEWORLD.
Introduction (C. Mathers).
Health Expectancy in Asian Countries (Y. Saito, etal.).
Ageing and Health Expectancies in Urban Latin America (R.Ham-Chande).
Global Patterns of Health Expectancy in the Year 2000 (C.Mathers, et al.).
Health Expectancies in European Countries (R.Perenboom, et al.).
Health Expectancy Research in North American Countries (V.Lamb).
Health Expectancy in Australia and New Zealand (P. Davis, etal.).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

The primary market for this book is the adoption market in the UK, Europe, US and Asia.