Health Estimates for Some Countries of the Rapid Developing World

Konstantinos N. Zafeiris () and Christos H. Skiadas ()
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Konstantinos N. Zafeiris: Democritus University of Thrace, Department of History and Ethnology, Laboratory of P. Anthropology
Christos H. Skiadas: ManLab, Technical University of Crete

Chapter Chapter 24 in Demography and Health Issues, 2018, pp 289-300 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This is a twofold paper, firstly aiming to apply a method for the calculation of healthy life expectancy to the well-known BRIICS countries. This method is based on the μ x distribution of a full life table. However, for many countries of the world such data is virtually absent or problematic, and in reality, only available in the form of an abridged life table. Thus, a method for expanding these life tables into full ones was presented. This method is used by the MORTPAK software of the United Nations. It was found that the use of this application was quite problematic for our purposes. On the other hand, the μ x based approach seems to be very efficient in calculating the temporal trends and levels of healthy life expectancy, given that the quality of data is good.

Keywords: Life expectancy at birth; Healthy life expectancy; MORTPAK; BRIICS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76002-5_24

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