scholarly journals Health Status of Old Age Population in Bulgaria

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Mariana Mourgova
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Healthy Life Expectancy ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Healthy Life Years ◽  
Demographic Indicators ◽  
Life Years ◽  
Different Levels

This article examines the health status of the population in Bulgaria at age 65 by gender during the period 2006-2014. The health status is examined by some of the most frequently used demographic indicators, namely life expectancy, based on mortality data and healthy life years and healthy life expectancy, based on mortality, life expectancy and self-perceived health. The main results show that despite of the observed increase in life expectancy at age 65 in Bulgaria during the period it is the lowest compared to other European countries. The share for both men and women reported their health status as without limitations in respect to daily activities decline, while those reported their health status as good increase. These contradictory facts reflect on the measures of health status. Thus, the trend in healthy life years for both sexes decline over the period, whereas the trend in healthy life expectancy increases. Compared with the other European countries, the expected number of years without limitations in Bulgaria is among the largest, while the healthy life expectancy is the lowest. These differences could be explained by the different levels in mortality and the nature of the measures of health status themselves.

scholarly journals Health Status of Old Age Population in Bulgaria

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Mariana Mourgova
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Healthy Life Expectancy ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Healthy Life Years ◽  
Demographic Indicators ◽  
Life Years ◽  
Different Levels

This article examines the health status of the population in Bulgaria at age 65 by gender during the period 2006-2014. The health status is examined by some of the most frequently used demographic indicators, namely life expectancy, based on mortality data and healthy life years and healthy life expectancy, based on mortality, life expectancy and self-perceived health. The main results show that despite of the observed increase in life expectancy at age 65 in Bulgaria during the period it is the lowest compared to other European countries. The share for both men and women reported their health status as without limitations in respect to daily activities decline, while those reported their health status as good increase. These contradictory facts reflect on the measures of health status. Thus, the trend in healthy life years for both sexes decline over the period, whereas the trend in healthy life expectancy increases. Compared with the other European countries, the expected number of years without limitations in Bulgaria is among the largest, while the healthy life expectancy is the lowest. These differences could be explained by the different levels in mortality and the nature of the measures of health status themselves.

scholarly journals Trends in healthy life expectancy among older Brazilian women between 1998 and 2008

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marília Regina Nepomuceno ◽  
Cássio Maldonado Turra
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Healthy Life Expectancy ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Current Health Status ◽  
Life Years

OBJECTIVE To analyze conditional and unconditional healthy life expectancy among older Brazilian women.METHODS This cross-sectional study used the intercensal technique to estimate, in the absence of longitudinal data, healthy life expectancy that is conditional and unconditional on the individual’s current health status. The data used were obtained from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (National Household Sample Survey) of 1998, 2003, and 2008. This sample comprised 11,171; 13,694; and 16,259 women aged 65 years or more, respectively. Complete mortality tables from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics for the years 2001 and 2006 were also used. The definition of health status was based on the difficulty in performing activities of daily living.RESULTS The remaining lifetime was strongly dependent on the current health status of the older women. Between 1998 and 2003, the amount of time lived with disability for healthy women at age 65 was 9.8%. This percentage increased to 66.2% when the women already presented some disability at age 65. Temporal analysis showed that the active life expectancy of the women at age 65 increased between 1998-2003 (19.3 years) and 2003-2008 (19.4 years). However, life years gained have been mainly focused on the unhealthy state.CONCLUSIONS Analysis of conditional and unconditional life expectancy indicated that live years gained are a result of the decline of mortality in unhealthy states. This pattern suggests that there has been no reduction in morbidity among older women in Brazil between 1998 and 2008.

scholarly journals How the unsolved problem of finding the Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) in the far past was resolved: The case of Sweden (1751-2016) with forecasts to 2060 and comparisons with HALE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos H Skiadas ◽  
Charilaos Skiadas
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Population Analysis ◽  
Life Tables ◽  
World Health ◽  
Healthy Life Expectancy ◽  
Estimation Methods ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Healthy Life Years ◽  
Life Years ◽  
The World

Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) estimates are achieved after systematic work of a large group of researchers all over the world during last decades. The most successful estimate was termed as HALE and is provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the related website. Having established a methodology of data collection and handling the HLE can be estimated and provided to researchers and policy makers.However, it remains an unexplored period of the last few centuries where, LE data exists along with the appropriate life tables, but not enough information for HLE estimates is collected and stored. The problem is now solved following a methodology of estimating the HLE from the life tables after the Healthy Life Years Lost (HLYL) estimation.Our methodology on a Direct HLYL estimation from Life Tables, is tested and verified via a series of additional methods including a Weibull parameter test, a Gompertz parameter alternative and of course a comparison with HALE estimates from WHO. The complete methodology and estimation methods are published in the book on “Demography of Population Health, Aging and Health Expenditures” of Volume 50 of the Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030446949, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44695-6

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