Healthy Life Expectancy and Health Gains in Cardiovascular Diseases Management in Korea
Title
Healthy Life Expectancy and Health Gains in Cardiovascular Diseases Management in Korea
Author(s)
Young-Ho Jung
; Sukja Ko
Publication Year
2012
Publisher
Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs
Table Of Contents
CHAPTER 1 Introduction 3
CHAPTER 2 Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy 11 1. Life Expectancy in Korea 11 2. Methods of Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy 14 3. Health-Related Quality of Life 15 4. Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy in Korea 21
CHAPTER 3 Gains in HALE after Eliminating Stroke and Risk Factors 29 1. Methods 29 2. Diabetes-eliminated HALE Gains 31 3. Hypertension-eliminated HALE Gains 36 4. Stroke-eliminated HALE Gains 40
CHAPTER 4 Summary and Conclusion 55 1. Differences between Life Expectancy and Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy 55 2. Policy Implications and Suggestions 59
References 61
Local ID
Working Paper 2012-03
ISBN
978-89-8187-872-6
KIHASA Research Subject Classification
Health care > Health care safety net
Health care > Health promotion
