Determining Health Expectancies

Content:
Chapter 1 Increase in Life Expectancy and Concentration of Ages at Death (pages 13–33): France Mesle and Jacques Vallin
Chapter 2 Compression of Morbidity (pages 35–58): Wilma J. Nusselder
Chapter 3 Patterns of Disability Change Associated with the Epidemiologic Transition (pages 59–74): George C. Myers, Vicki L. Lamb and Emily M. Agree
Chapter 4 Trends in Health Expectancies (pages 75–101): Jean?Marie Robine, Isabelle Romieu and Jean?Pierre Michel
Chapter 5 Social Inequalities in Health Expectancy (pages 111–125): Eileen M. Crimmins and Emmanuelle Cambois
Chapter 6 Sub?national Variations in Health Expectancy (pages 127–147): Andrew Bebbington and Madhavi Bajekal
Chapter 7 Cause?deleted Health Expectancies (pages 149–174): Colin D. Mathers
Chapter 8 Mental Health Expectancy (pages 175–182): Karen Ritchie and Catherine Polge
Chapter 9 Data Collection Methods and Comparability Issues (pages 187–201): Vittoria Buratta and Viviana Egidi
Chapter 10 Disability Measurement (pages 203–219): Dorly J.H. Deeg, Lois M. Verbrugge and Carol Jagger
Chapter 11 The Evolution of Demographic Methods to Calculate Health Expectancies (pages 221–234): Sarah B. Laditka and Mark D. Hayward
Chapter 12 Health?adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) (pages 235–246): Jean?Marie Berthelot
Chapter 13 Disability?adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and Disability?adjusted Life Expectancy (DALE) (pages 247–261): Jan J. Barendregt
Chapter 14 Classification and Harmonisation (pages 263–281): Hendriek Boshuizen and Rom J.M. Perenboom
Chapter 15 Health Expectancy in Asian Countries (pages 289–317): Yasuhiko Saito, Xiaochun Qiao and Sutthichai Jitapunkul
Chapter 16 Ageing and Health Expectancies in Urban Latin America (pages 319–333): Roberto Ham?Chande
Chapter 17 Global Patterns of Health Expectancy in the Year 2000 (pages 335–358): Colin D. Mathers, Christopher J.L. Murray, Alan D. Lopez, Joshua A. Salomon and Ritu Sadana
Chapter 18 Health Expectancies in European Countries (pages 359–376): Rom J.M. Perenboom, Herman van Oyen and Margareta Mutafova
Chapter 19 Health Expectancy Research in North American Countries (pages 377–390): Vicki L. Lamb
Chapter 20 Health Expectancy in Australia and New Zealand (pages 391–408): Peter Davis, Colin D. Mathers and Patrick Graham