Article: 'Healthy life years' matter more than life expectancy after 50.

Article: 'Healthy life years' matter more than life ...
Asian News International;  November 25, 2008 ;     539 words ... ... could look forward to 23.6 'healthy life years' and women 24.1. On the ... According to experts, 'healthy life years' provide a better way to make ... until 68.1. However, 'healthy life years' varied by as much as 14 ...

Article: Years of healthy life - selected states, United ...
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report;  January 16, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... as increases in the number of years of healthy life (YHL) (i.e., quality-adjusted life years), a measure of health that combines ... 2000 is to increase the expectation of healthy life at age 65 years from 12 to 14 years ...

Article: Healthy life expectancy for selected race and ...
Southern Medical Journal;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Objective: To analyze healthy life expectancy (HLE) for ... adjusted life expectancies. "Healthy life expectancy" is a summary ... called Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). (12,13,5) Healthy life expectancies can be formulated ...

Article: The effect of smoking on Years of Healthy Life ...
Health Services Research;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... period of time using, for example, QALYs (quality adjusted life years), HALYs (health adjusted life years), DALYs (disability adjusted life years), or YHLs (years of healthy life) (Gold, Stevenson, and Fryback 2002). A few earlier ...

Article: Healthy life shrink.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);  January 14, 2008 ;     297 words ...IRISH people have lost 2.25 healthy life years in the past six years because of unhealthy lifestyles ... 1999, an Irish adult could expect to enjoy 65.75 healthy life years. By 2005 this fell to 63.50 years. The EU average ...

Article: Two reports from WHO focus on action: against violence & ...
International Midwifery;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... claim is that: `worldwide, healthy life expectancy can be increased by ... and robbing tens of millions of healthy life'. The report finds that the ... one-third of global loss of healthy life years. Although none of these risks ...

Article: Quality-adjusted life years: ethical implications ...
Issues in Law & Medicine;  March 22, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... Use A QALY (quality-adjusted life years) is a numerical description of ... number: if an additional year of healthy life expectancy is worth a value of one ... may have been uncomfortable with life years gained as an outcome but have had ...