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An Estimation of Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy(HALE) for Koreans

한국인의 건강보정 기대여명의 측정

  • Kang, Eun-Jeong (Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs) ;
  • Kim, Na-Yeon (Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs) ;
  • Yoon, Seok-Jun (Dept. of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University)
  • 강은정 (한국보건사회연구원) ;
  • 김나연 (한국보건사회연구원) ;
  • 윤석준 (고려대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실)
  • Published : 2008.03.31
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Abstract

Summary measures of population health or SMPH is an index which can describe morbidity as well as mortality. Summary measures of population health can be divided into health-adjusted life years which is a life expectancy measure and disability-adjusted life years which represents the gap between the ideal health status and the current health status. This study aims at estimating health-adjusted life expectancy(HALE) which is a measure of health-adjusted life years, by calculating life expectancy adjusted by health status using EQ-5D. The mortality data was obtained from the life table of 2005 which was published by the National Statistical Office and the health status by sex and age was obtained from the EQ-5D scores using the third National Health and Nutrition and Examination Survey in 2005. With these mortality and morbidity data, health-adjusted life expectancy was calculated using Sullivan's method. The study results showed that the health-adjusted life expectancy of males and females was 67.49 and 69.61, respectively, while the life expectancy of males and females was 75.14 and 81.89. In other words, Korean males and females lose 7.65 and 12.28, respectively, from the decrease of quality of life due to diseases and/or injuries. These results can further be interpreted that males lose 10.2% of their life expectancy and females 15.0%. This study suggests that it may be possible to monitor population's health-adjusted life expectancy by continuing to include health-related quality of life measures such as EQ-5D in national health surveys like the National Health and Nutrition and Examination Survey.

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