BACKGROUND Healthy life expectancy--sometimes called health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE)--is a form of health expectancy indicator that extends measures of life expectancy to account for the distribution of health states in the population. The World Health Organization has estimated healthy life expectancy for 192 WHO Member States using information from health interview surveys and from the...

Background: The aim of the research is to evaluate relationship between surgically important healthy life expectancy and respiratory tract deaths on tuberculosis-related Health Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE). Methods: ICD-10 (International Classification Diseases 10th Revision) mortality HALE data WHO were used. In data, a total 12 countries have been reported tuberculosis caused from 1996 201...

To verify the Global Burden of Disease Study and the provided healthy life expectancy (HALE) estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) we propose a very simple model based on the mortality μx of a population provided in a classical life table and a mortality diagram. We use the abridged life tables provided by WHO. Our estimates are compared with the HALE estimates for the World territ...

Sullivan's method and a regression model were used to calculate healthy life expectancy (HALE) for men and women in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong SAR) of China. These methods need estimates of the prevalence and information on disability distributions of 109 diseases and HALE for 191 countries by age, sex and region of the world from the WHO's health assessment of 2000. The...

BACKGROUND We sought to understand whether people living with HIV (PLHIV) ever on highly active antiretroviral therapy (ART) follow a pattern where morbidity is compressed into the last years of life or lessened as people age. We aimed to estimate health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) among adults living with and without HIV, and examine dependency between causes of comorbidities. METHODS Th...

Abstract Background Health expectancy indicators aim at capturing the quality dimension of total life expectancy.; however, underlying approach, definition health, and information source differ considerably among available. Objective (1) Review main concepts approaches used to estimate health focusing on two widely European indicators: Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) Healthy Years (HLY);...

background and aims: life expectancy is one of the most important indicators of health and well-being of a society. since it is claimed that in aran-bidgol region, center of iran, life expectancy is higher than the average of the country, this study was designed. methods: during a cross-sectional study, population and mortality data of kashan university of medical sciences (kaums) in 2011 were ...

BACKGROUND Population health and disease profiles are diverse across Iran's neighboring countries. Borrowing the results of the country-level Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2010 Study (GBD 2010), we aim to compare Iran with 19 countries in terms of an important set of population health and disease metrics. These countries include those neighboring Iran and a few other cou...