Titlebook: International Handbook of Health Expectancies; Carol Jagger,Eileen M. Crimmins,Jean-Marie Robine Book 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG

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Trends in Health Expectancies as well as dynamic equilibrium between morbidity and longevity, proposed in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and it provides an analysis of health expectancy trends observed since then around the world. The first section focuses on the transition from the conceptual definitions of different scenario

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An Analysis of Macro-level Determinants of Geographic Disparities in Health Expectanciesof the central policy and research questions. This chapter provides an overview of previous research findings about the macro-level factors related to health expectancy measures throughout the world. A special focus is placed on Europe (the member states of the European Union and the former Soviet R

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Data Sources for Health Expectancy Researchth links to websites that contain documentation and instructions for accessing the data. The chapter discusses the two main types of data that are used for analyses of health expectancy–cross-sectional and panel—and reviews the most common measures that have been used in health expectancy research:

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Decomposing Gaps in Healthy Life Expectancy. In this chapter we first describe the main developments in the general field of decomposition analysis. Next we turn our attention to the particular case of healthy life expectancy, which is decomposable using the step-wise and continuous change decomposition methods. We describe both methods in d

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Forecasting Health Expectancy?– What the Future Might Holdity burden, aetiology and progression, and whether years of healthy life are keeping pace with gains in life expectancy. In this chapter we describe the different forecasting models that been developed to estimate the future numbers with disability and/or health expectancies. The chapter comprises s

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Gender Differences in Healthy and Unhealthy Life Expectancyh, a phenomenon described as the “male-female health-survival paradox” or the “gender paradox in health and mortality”. However, it is difficult to explain the process because morbidity by sex differs considerably across domains of health, age groups, social contexts and severity level. In addition,