Screen LibraryDetermining health expectancies
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| Group Author: | |
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| Published: |
J. Wiley,
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| Publisher Address: | Chichester Hoboken, NJ |
| Publication Dates: | c2003. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 428 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0470843977 (hc.) |
| Index Number: | R199 |
| CLC: |
R199 R195 |
| Call Number: | R195/D479 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Ch. 1. Increase in life expectancy and concentration of ages at death -- Ch. 2. Compression of morbidity -- Ch. 3. Patterns of disability change associated with the epidemiologic transition -- Ch. 4. Trends in health expectancies -- Ch. 5. Social inequalities in health expectancy -- Ch. 6. Sub-national variations in health expectancy -- Ch. 7. Cause-deleted health expectancies -- Ch. 8. Mental health expectancy -- Ch. 9. Data collection methods and comparability issues -- Ch. 10. Disability measurement -- Ch. 11. The evolution of demographic methods to calculate health expectancies -- Ch. 12. Health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) -- Ch. 13. Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and Disability-Adjusted Life Expectancy (DALE) -- Ch. 14. Classification and harmonisation -- Ch. 15. Health expectancy in Asian countries -- Ch. 16. Ageing and health expectancies in Urban Latin America -- Ch. 17. Global patterns of health expectancy in the year 2000 -- Ch. 18. Health expectancies in European countries -- Ch. 19. Health expectancy research in North American countries -- Ch. 20. Health expectancy in Australia and New Zealand. |