Estimating Healthy Life Expectancies Using Longitudinal Survey Data: Methods and Techniques in Population Health Measures

Details

• Description:
  Summary measures of population health are statistics that combine mortality and morbidity to represent overall population health in a single index. Such measures include healthy life expectancy, also called disability-free life expectancy and active life expectancy. Healthy life expectancy can be calculated using cross-sectional or longitudinal survey data. This report presents a comprehensive discussion of a method for calculating healthy life expectancy using data from longitudinal surveys.
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Health Surveys Public Health Vital Statistics
• Keywords:
  healthy life expectancy, morbidity, mortality
• Source:
  Other NCHS Survey or Data System
• Series:
  NCHS Vital and Health Statistics Series
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Statistics ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Pages in Document:
  24 pdf pages
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  146
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5a8dba09c76369f6c5469e4fa4c779a8e240e8827adc22afa348f2977db49e7a29d1e81d87a39481aeb756a78641f47af87a5bda672fe66c204161f72ea89a43
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6973/cdc_6973_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 448.17 KB ]