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This issue publishes five selected works presented at the Réseau Espérance de Vie en Santé (REVES) Meeting 2009 in Copenhagen. http://www.springerlink.com/content/1613-9380
Sullivan method
Sullivan’s method is a very simple method to compute health expectancies; it has been used and discussed by many authors. It combines data issued from a regular period life table on the one hand and from cross-sectional survey providing prevalence of a given health dimension on the other hand, let’s say, disability. The age-specific prevalence is directly applied to the ...
Multistate method
The multistate life table method has been proposed by Rogers and colleagues in order to take into account the recovery of lost functions and return to a state of good health. Data comes from longitudinal surveys which provide requested probabilities over a couple of years: - onset of disability or other health problems - recovery from disability or other heath problems - probability of dying for people ...
REVES papers
REVES papers offers: a selection of synthesis documents produced by REVES and available in a pdf format, the list of the contributions, either published or not, to the annual REVES meetings, These contributions are available on request, for the three most recent meetings, the contributions can be downloaded (powerpoint format) from the "meetings" section.
Interprete patterns and trends
Health expectancy indicators have become important instruments for public health. Therefore, how to interpret levels, trends or disparities within and between countries is a crucial issue: Why female health expectancies shorter than male? Do social status matters for health expectancies? Can we find regional patterns within countries? etc... In order to properly comment and use these indicators, one should be aware of how it is computed and what are ...
