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| Healthy life expectancy in Great Britain, 1980-96, and its use as an indicator in United Kingdom government strategies | | Author(s) | Sue Kelly, Allan Baker, Sunjai Gupta |
| Journal title | Health Statistics Quarterly, 07, Autumn 2000 |
| Pages | pp 32-37 |
| Keywords | Longevity ; Good Health ; Life expectancy tables ; Living patterns ; Social policy ; Indicators ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | There has been a dramatic increase in life expectancy over the last century, but are the extra years gained lived in good health? Health expectancy is a single index, that combines mortality and morbidity, which can be used to help answer this question. This article presents time trends for Great Britain, using morbidity data from the General Household Survey (GHS) and data from the 1991 Census (question on limiting long-standing illness - LLI). These are compared with trends in life expectancy. Both life expectancy and healthy life expectancy increased between 1980 and 1996. However, healthy life expectancy did not increase by as much as total life expectancy, with the result that both men and women are living more years in poor health or with a limiting long-standing illness. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001009002 A |
| Classmark | BGA: CD: S7: K7: TM2: 3RI: 3J |
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