Health expectancies were developed to address the important question of whether or not we are exchanging longer life for poorer health - replacing quality by quantity.
Health expectancies extend the concept of life expectancy to morbidity and disability by providing a means of dividing life expectancy into life spent in various states of good and bad health. Being independent of the size of populations and of their age structure, health expectancies thus allow direct comparison of the different groups that constitute populations: sexes, socio-professional categories, regions.
This book brings together for the first time, the major works of REVES
* over the past ten years. As well as providing comparisons of the health of many of the world's countries, the book includes sections on the concepts behind health expectancies and the demographic transition, the relevance of health expectancies to health policy and the different methods of calculating health expectancies.
*REVES is an international organisation of researchers, clinicians and health planners addressing these issues as well as developing and recommending methods of calculation and furthering the use of health 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
Edited by:
Jean-Marie Robine (INSERM Equipe Démographie et Santé Parc Euromédecine Montpellier France),
Carol Jagger (Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,
University of Leicester,
UK),
Colin D. Mathers (Epidemiology and Burden of Disease,
World Health Organization,
Geneva,
Switzerland),
Eileen M. Crimmins (Andrus Gerontology Center,
University of Southern California,
Los Angeles,
USA),
Richard M. Suzman (Behavioral and Social Research,
National Institute on Aging,
Bethesda,
USA)
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 158mm,
Spine: 32mm
Weight: 737g
ISBN: 9780470843970
ISBN 10: 0470843977
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 27 November 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Contributors. List of Abbreviations. Introduction (J. Robine, et al.). PART I: THE MAIN TRENDS IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE POPULATION'S HEALTH 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 Epidemiologic Transition (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 and M. 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 and V. Egidi). Disability Measurement (D. Deeg, et al.). The Evolution of Demographic Methods to Calculate Health Expectancies (S. Laditka and M. Hayward). Health-adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) (J. Berthelot). Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and Disability-adjusted Life Expectancy (DALE) (J. Barendregt). Classification and Harmonisation (H. Boshuizen and R. Perenboom). PART IV: HEALTH EXPECTANCIES IN THE DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE WORLD. Introduction (C. Mathers). Health Expectancy in Asian Countries (Y. Saito, et al.). 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, et al.). Index.
Jean-Marie Robine is a French demographer, gerontologist, author and journalist, who is best known as being the co-validator of the longevity of Jeanne Calment, the oldest verified supercentenarian of all time, with whom he collaborated. Carol Jagger is the editor of Determining Health Expectancies, published by Wiley.
Reviews for Determining Health Expectancies
"""…a truly international endeavour…"" (Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, March 2003)"
