Harmonising summary measures of population health using global survey instruments. [1]
Peer reviewed scientific article
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Authors
Nicolas Berger [3]; Robine, Jean-Marie [4]; Ojima, Toshiyuki [5]; Madans, Jennifer [6]; Herman Van Oyen [7]Keywords
Abstract:
measures of population health-health expectancies in particular-have become a standard for quantifying and monitoring population health. To date, cross-national comparability of health expectancies is limited, except within the European Union (EU). To advance international comparability, the European Joint Action on Healthy Life Years (JA: EHLEIS) set up an international working group. The working group discussed the conceptual basis of summary measures of population health and made suggestions for the development of comparable health expectancies to be used across the EU and Organisation f…