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Health expectancy: first workshop of the International Healthy Life Expectancy Network (REVES)
- Editors:
- ROBINE Jean-Marie, BLANCHET Madeleine, DOWD John
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 188p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at various studies devoted to disability-free life expectancy. Part 1 contains papers on: expectation of life without disability measured from OPCS disability surveys; summary of results of calculation of life expectancy free of disability in the Netherlands 1981-85; Health expectancy in Quebec 1987; recent values of disability-free life expectancy in the United States; health expectancy in Canada; data from Switzerland. Part 2 contains papers on the different types of disability-free life expectancy and the methods of calculation. Part 3 examines the interpretation of these calculations and part 4 at the uses of disability-free life expectancy.