Mortality is one way of measuring health, and life expectancy provides a useful age standardised measure of mortality. Since the middle of the 19th century the expectation of life at birth for both females and males has almost doubled. Neither men nor wom...
Between 1981 and 1999 average life expectancy in Great Britain increased from 70.9 to 75.1 years for men and from 76.8 to 80.0 years for women. Over the same period healthy life expectancy increased from 64.4 to 66.6 years for men and from 66.7 to 68.9 fo...
Life expectancy is a widely used indicator of the state of the nation's health. Large improvements in expectancy of life at birth have been seen over the past century for both males and females. In 1901 males born in the United Kingdom could expect to liv...
Given the failure of healthy life expectancy to rise as fast as life expectancy over the last 20 years, it is perhaps little surprise that there has been increased reporting of morbidity. The most notable rise has been among the older age groups. In 1972,...
Health expectancy combines life expectancy and population data with data on the health of a population to give an index of the expected remaining years of healthy life.
ONS calculates two types of health expectancy:
(1) Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) ...
Healthy life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy at birth have been calculated for wards in England and Wales. These are based on life expectancy data for wards (experimental statistics), 1999-2003, and the 2001 Census health rates for 'good/ f...