Prospective life tables depend on forecasting age-specific mortality. Considerable attention has 2 been paid to methods for forecasting mortality in recent years. Much of this work has grown 3 out of the seminal Lee-Carter method (Lee & Carter 1992). Other extrapolative approaches 4 use Bayesian modelling, generalized linear modelling and state-space approaches. Methods for 5 forecasting mortal...

BACKGROUND The quality-adjusted life year (QALY) is an attractive outcome measure because it captures both health-related quality of life (HRQL) and life expectancy in a single metric. We present a method for calculating QALYs that is simple, utilizes data that are free of charge, and may improve consistency in burden-of-disease investigations. METHODS For purposes of illustration, we calcula...

Objective-Life expectancy without activity limitations or active life expectancy is one of the health expectancy measures that is used to summarize population health. The measure differentiates the remaining years of life that are expected to be spent with activity limitations from expected years of life without activity limitations. The objective of this study was to estimate life expectancy w...