Incidence-based Estimates of Healthy Life Expectancy for the United Kingdom: Coherence between Transition Probabilities and Aggregate Life Tables

2006/04/10 by Ehsan Khoman, Khoman, Ehsan, Martin Weale +1
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #FOS: Mathematics #Global Health Care Issues #Health disparities and outcomes #Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management #Statistics Theory (math.ST)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0604225

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Abstract

Will the United Kingdom's ageing population be fit and independent, or suffer from greater chronic ill health? Healthy life expectancy is commonly used to assess this: it is an estimate of how many years are lived in good health over the lifespan. This paper examines a means of generating estimates of healthy and unhealthy life expectancy consistent with exogenous population mortality data. The method takes population transition matrices and adjusts these in a statistically coherent way so as to render them consistent with aggregate life tables. It is applied to estimates of healthy life expectancy for the United Kingdom.

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