What is healthy adjusted life expectancy?

What is healthy adjusted life expectancy?

Health adjusted life expectancy (HALE) refers to the equivalent number of years in full health that an individual at a given age can expect to live if exposed to age specific mortality and health status (morbidity) conditions that prevail today.

What are some uses of Hale estimates and why is it important?

Healthy life expectancy (HALE) at birth adds up expectation of life for different health states, adjusted for severity distribution making it sensitive to changes over time or differences between countries in the severity distribution of health states.

What life expectancy means?

The term “life expectancy” refers to the number of years a person can expect to live. By definition, life expectancy is based on an estimate of the average age that members of a particular population group will be when they die.

Are Singaporeans living longer?

According to a published report on “The Burden of Disease in Singapore, 1990–2017” on the Ministry of Health website on 31 May 2019, Singaporeans are living longer and healthier lives than most people globally.

What is the difference between life expectancy and health adjusted life expectancy?

Health Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) HALE is a measure of population health that takes into account mortality and morbidity. This is calculated by subtracting from the life expectancy a figure which is the number of years lived with disability multiplied by a weighting to represent the effect of the disability.

Is Hale higher than life expectancy?

Globally, the average healthy life expectancy for someone age 60 was 75.8 years in 2016 (men: 74.8 years; women: 76.8 years). In the United States, the average life expectancy is 84.1 years and the average HALE is 78.9 years….HALE Around the World.

U.S. States With the Highest HALE
State HALE
Florida 80.4
Vermont 80.2

What is the difference between Hale and life expectancy?

Which country has the highest life expectancy?

Countries ranked by life expectancy

# Country Life Expectancy (both sexes)
1 Hong Kong 85.29
2 Japan 85.03
3 Macao 84.68
4 Switzerland 84.25