Determining Health Expectancies

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. Mesle 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.