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Potential impact of reduced tobacco use on life and health expectancies in Belgium

Abstract: Objectives We investigated the potential impact of reduced tobacco use scenarios on total life expectancy and health expectancies, i.e., healthy life years and unhealthy life years. Methods Data ...

Evolution of educational inequalities in life and health expectancies at 25 years in Belgium between 2001 and 2011: a census-based study

Keywords: Belgium Disability-free life expectancy HEALTH EXPECTANCY Health inequality Life expectancy socio-economic inequality trends Abstract: Background: Reducing socio-economic health inequalities is ...

Women’s excess unhealthy life years: disentangling the unhealthy life years gapAbstractBackgroundMethodsResultsConclusion

s were calculated by the Sullivan method. The contributions of mortality and disability differences to gender differences in ULY were based on decomposition analyses. Results: Life expectancy of French ...

Contribution of chronic conditions to gender disparities in health expectancies in Belgium, 2001, 2004 and 2008

European Journal of Public Health (2018) Keywords: causes of death causes of morbidity DISABILITY Gender HEALTH EXPECTANCY inequity Life expectancy Abstract: Background We aimed to investigate the ...

Contribution of chronic conditions to gender disparities in health expectancies in Belgium, 2001, 2004 and 2008

contribution of chronic conditions to gender differences in disability- free life expectancy (DFLE) and life expectancy with disability (LED) in Belgium in 2001, 2004 and 2008. Methods: Data on disability and ...

Global burden of cancer and coronary heart disease resulting from dietary exposure to arsenic, 2015

Arsenic cancer Coronary heart disease Diet Disability-adjusted life year Foodborne burden of disease Abstract: Arsenic is a ubiquitous, naturally occurring metalloid that poses a significant risk for human ...

Global burden of intellectual disability resulting from prenatal exposure to methylmercury, 2015

Diet Disability-adjusted life year Foodborne burden of disease Intellectual Disability Methylmercury Abstract: We describe analyses to estimate the global burden of disease associated with methylmercury ...

Contribution of chronic conditions to smoking differences in life expectancy with and without disability in Belgium

Oyen Source: European Journal of Public Health, Volume 28, Issue 5 (2018) Keywords: Chronic disease disabilities Disability-free life expectancy HEALTH EXPECTANCY Life expectancy mortality SMOKING ...

The use of the global activity limitation Indicator and healthy life years by member states and the European Commission.

(2018) Abstract: Background: In 2005, the European Union (EU) started to use a disability-free life expectancy, known as Healthy Life Years (HLY), to monitor progress in the strategic European policies ...

Welfare-Adjusted Life Years (WALY): A novel metric of animal welfare that combines the impacts of impaired welfare and abbreviated lifespan.

the Disability-Adjusted Life Year approach used in human health audits, we propose WALY as the sum of a) the years lived with impaired welfare due to a particular cause and b) the years of life lost due ...

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