Determining health expectancies
By: edited by Jean-Marie Robine ... [et al.].
Contributors: Robine, Jean-Marie.
Publisher: J. Wiley
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chichester; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: Health expectancy.; Health status indicators.; World health.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Increase in life expectancy and concentration of ages at death; title: Ch. 2. Compression of morbidity; title: Ch. 3. Patterns of disability change associated with the epidemiologic transition; title: Ch. 4. Trends in health expectancies; title: Ch. 5. Social inequalities in health expectancy; title: Ch. 6. Sub-national variations in health expectancy; title: Ch. 7. Cause-deleted health expectancies; title: Ch. 8. Mental health expectancy; title: Ch. 9. Data collection methods and comparability issues; title: Ch. 10. Disability measurement; title: Ch. 11. The evolution of demographic methods to calculate health expectancies; title: Ch. 12. Health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE); title: Ch. 13. Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and Disability-Adjusted Life Expectancy (DALE); title: Ch. 14. Classification and harmonisation; title: Ch. 15. Health expectancy in Asian countries; title: Ch. 16. Ageing and health expectancies in Urban Latin America; title: Ch. 17. Global patterns of health expectancy in the year 2000; title: Ch. 18. Health expectancies in European countries; title: Ch. 19. Health expectancy research in North American countries; title: Ch. 20. Health expectancy in Australia and New Zealand.