| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) |
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International Handbooks of Population ; v. 9 |
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International handbooks of population ; 9.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Part I: Monitoring Trends and Gaps -- 1: Operationalization of Concepts of Health and Disability -- Introduction -- Health -- The Medical Model -- WHO Definition -- EuroQOL -- Health Concept Proposed by Huber -- Self-Rated Health -- Disability -- Washington Group Questions -- WHO Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0 -- WHO Model Disability Survey -- Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) -- Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI) |
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Importance of Including Disability Severity -- Evolution of the Disability Concept and Importance for Public Health Policies -- Frailty -- Phenotype Model -- Cumulative Deficit Model -- Multidimensional Model -- Importance of Developing a Global Frailty Measure -- Composite Health Measures -- Conclusions -- References -- 2: Trends in Health Expectancies -- Introduction -- Defining the Different Health Scenarios -- Possible Trends in Population Health -- Trends and Scenarios Observed in Different Parts of the World -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References |
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3: An Analysis of Macro-level Determinants of Geographic Disparities in Health Expectancies -- Background -- Review of Empirical Research Findings -- The European Union (EU) Member Countries -- The United Kingdom (UK) -- East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Republics -- Japan -- China -- Summary -- References -- 4: Monitoring Social Differentials in Health Expectancies -- Background -- Health Expectancies by Social Status -- Policy Relevance of Measuring Social Inequalities in Health Expectancies -- Defining and Measuring Social Status |
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How the Social Situation of Individuals Relates to their Health -- Understanding the Determinants of Social Health Inequality -- Social Status and the Disablement Process -- Stratifying a Population by a Social Criterion -- Selecting the Appropriate Social Criteria -- Alternative Approaches to Individual Social Criteria -- Measuring Social Status, and Mortality and Health by Social Status -- Collecting Appropriate Information on Mortality and Health by Social Status -- Availability of Data Stratified by Social Status -- Collecting Social Status in Surveys or Censuses |
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The Measure of Mortality by SES: Linked vs Unlinked Data Sources -- Measuring Health by Socio-economic Status -- The International Literature on Health Expectancy by Social Status -- Characteristics of the Studies: Social Indicators, Country, Method -- Patterns and Trends in Health Expectancy by Social Status -- Social Inequalities in Health Expectancies -- Varying Gaps According to the Health or Disability Indicator -- Social Differences in Health Expectancies Across Age -- Social Differences in Health Expectancies by Gender -- Trends in Health Expectancies by Social Status |
| Summary |
This handbook presents global research on health expectancies, a measure of population health that examines the interaction between quantity and quality of life. With data from Europe, North America, Asia, and beyond, it explains how to define and measure health and morbidity and how to integrate these measurements with mortality. Coverage first highlights long-term trends in longevity and health. It also considers variations across and within countries, inequalities, and social gaps as well as micro and macro-level determinants. Next, the handbook deals with the methodological aspects of calculating health expectancies. It compares results from different methods and introduces tools, such as decomposition tool for decomposing gaps, an attrition tool for attributing a medical cause to reported disability, and a tool for measuring policy impact on health expectancies. It introduces methods of forecasting health expectancies. The handbook then goes on to examine the synergies and/or trade-off between longevity and health as well as considers such topics as the compression versus the expansion of morbidity/disability and the health-survival paradox. The last section considers new concepts and dimensions of health and, more broadly, well being which can be used in summary measures of population health, including psychological factors. Researchers, clinicians, demographers, and health planners will find this handbook an essential resource to this increasingly important public health and social policy tool. It will help readers gain insight into changes in health over time as well as inequalities between countries, regions, and population subgroups |
| Notes |
Health Expectancy Within Countries Across Deprivation Areas |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Health expectancy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Health expectancy
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| Genre/Form |
handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jagger, Carol
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Crimmins, Eileen M.
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Saito, Yasuhiko
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De Carvalho Yokota, Renata Tiene
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Oyen, Herman Van.
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Robine, Jean-Marie.
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| ISBN |
9783030376680 |
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3030376680 |
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