Background Healthy life expectancy (HALE) summarises mortality and non-fatal outcomes in
a single measure of average population health. It has been used to compare health between …

Background How long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health,
and how the population's state of health and leading causes of disability change over time …

Background: Measurement of changes in health across locations is useful to compare and
contrast changing epidemiological patterns against health system performance and identify …

Background Measurement of changes in health across locations is useful to compare and
contrast changing epidemiological patterns against health system performance and identify …

Summary Background The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring
together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework …

Objective To quantify and compare the contribution of 306 diseases and injuries to the
changes in health adjusted life expectancy at birth (HALE 0) between 1990 and 2013 …

Background Healthy life expectancy (HALE) and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs)
provide summary measures of health across geographies and time that can inform …

Background Improving survival and extending the longevity of life for all populations
requires timely, robust evidence on local mortality levels and trends. The Global Burden of …

Background Healthy life expectancy–sometimes called health-adjusted life expectancy
(HALE)–is a form of health expectancy indicator that extends measures of life expectancy to …

Timely, highquality mortality data have allowed for assessments of the impact of the novel
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19) on life expectancies in uppermiddleand high …