Presentation at the ISA-Forum 08 in Barcelona | Healthy Life Expectancy
”Are Things Getting Better or Worse, and Why? The Role of Social Indicators to Inform Public Policy”
ISA – Working Group 06 “Social Indicators
Conference Track at 1st ISA Forum “Sociological Research and Public Debate”
Barcelona, September 5 – 8, 2008
Session 1: Indicators and Their Use to Guide Policies in the Field of Health
Chair: Heinz-Herbert Noll, GESIS-ZUMA, Mannheim, Germany
Authors:
Lars Eric Kroll; Thomas Lampert; Cornelia Lange; Thomas Ziese
Title: Healthy Life Expectancy as an indicator to compare the health of societies
Abstract:
Background
Healthy life expectancy is an important indicator to describe the consequences of demo-graphic change for different societies. Possible scenarios are an overall increase of the years people are suffering diseases or functional limitations (“expansion of morbidity”), a decline of the morbid time in the life course (“compression of morbidity”) and a “dynamic equilibrium” of morbidity and mortality. We will discuss the concept and problems of the indicator healthy life expectancy for policy advice.
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