Overview
Health expectancies were developed to address the important question of whether or not we are exchanging longer life for poorer health - replacing quality by quantity. Health expectancies extend the concept of life expectancy to morbidity and disability by providing a means of dividing life expectancy into life spent in various states of good and bad health. Being independent of the size of populations and of their age structure, health expectancies thus allow direct comparison of the different groups that constitute populations: sexes, socio-professional categories, regions. This book brings together for the first time, the major works of REVES* over the past ten years. As well as providing comparisons of the health of many of the world's countries, the book includes sections on the concepts behind health expectancies and the demographic transition, the relevance of health expectancies to health policy and the different methods of calculating health expectancies. *REVES is an international organisation of researchers, clinicians and health planners addressing these issues as well as developing and recommending methods of calculation and furthering the use of health expectancy as a tool for health planning. * State-of-the-art coverage of this important health indicator * Heavily cross referenced to give the book structure and coherence * Editors are pioneers in the field of health expectancy
Full Product Details
Author: Jean-Marie Robine (INSERM, Equipe Démographie et Santé, Parc Euromédecine, Montpellier, France) ,
Carol Jagger (Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Leicester, UK) ,
Colin D. Mathers (Epidemiology and Burden of Disease, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland) ,
Eileen M. Crimmins (Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 3.20cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.737kg
ISBN: 9780470843970
ISBN 10: 0470843977
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 27 November 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
a truly international endeavour (Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, March 2003)
"""…a truly international endeavour…"" (Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, March 2003)"
Author Information
Jean-Marie Robine is a French demographer, gerontologist, author and journalist, who is best known as being the co-validator of the longevity of Jeanne Calment, the oldest verified supercentenarian of all time, with whom he collaborated. Carol Jagger is the editor of Determining Health Expectancies, published by Wiley.
