The socioeconomic distribution of life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in Chile
Abstract Background Life expectancy (LE) has usually been used as a metric to monitor population health. In the last few years, metrics such as Quality-Adjusted-Life-Expectancy (QALE) and Health-Adjusted-Life- Expectancy (HALE) have gained popularity in health research, given their capacity to captu...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-08-01
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Series: | International Journal for Equity in Health |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-01972-w |